Nationality British Name Hugh Ford | Role Engineer | |
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Born July 16, 1913 ( 1913-07-16 ) Institutions Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial College London
Great Western Railway Alma mater Imperial College London Spouse Wynyard Scholfield (1942–1991)
Thelma Jensen (since 1993) Died May 28, 2010, London, United Kingdom Books Frank Brian Mercer, O.B.E.: A Biographical Memoir, Advanced Mechanics of Materials Education University of Bath (1978), Imperial College London (1939), Northampton School for Boys Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, James Watt International Medal Notable awards Royal Society, James Watt International Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering | ||
Sir Hugh Ford FREng FRS (16 July 1913 – 28 May 2010) was a British engineer. He was Professor of Applied Mechanics at Imperial College London from 1951 to 1978.
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Education
Ford was educated at Northampton Grammar School and served an apprenticeship at the Great Western Railway. He studied at City & Guilds College (Imperial College London) on a Whitworth scholarship, where he would earn a first class degree, and win the Bramwell Medal. He earned a PhD in heat transfer and fluid flow. During World War II, he worked at Imperial Chemical Industries in Cheshire. He studied operations at strip mills, earning the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal in 1948.
Career
Beginning in 1948, he was Reader in Applied Mechanics at Imperial College. He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from 1977 to 1978. Ford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and knighted in 1975. In 1970, he received the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize. He was awarded an honorary degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Bath in 1978. In 1985 he received the James Watt International Medal.
Shortly after his death Ford was featured on the BBC Radio 4 obituary program Last Word.