Background
FORD, Hugh was born on July 16, 1913 in Thornby, Northamptonshire. Son of Arthur Ford and Constance Mary Ford.
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Hugh Ford
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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 Meda He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in heat transfer and fluid flow.
During World 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
October 1991); 2 children. Married Thelma Morgan Jensen, November 30, 1993. Practical trainee GWR Locomotive Works, 1931-1936.
Research into heat transfer, 1936-1939.
R. and England Imperial Chemical Industries, Northwich, 1939-1942. Chief engineer technical department British Iron and Steel Federation, 1942-1945, then head mechanic working division British Iron and Steel Research Association, 1945-1947.
Reader in applied mechanics U. London Imperial College of Science and Technology, 1948-1951, professor, 1951-1969, head department mechanic engineering, 1965-1978, professor mechanic engineering, 1969-1980, professor emeritus, since 1981, pro-rector, 1978-1980. Chairman Sir Hugh Ford and Associations, Limited.
Director Air Liquide United Kingdom Limited., 1976-1995.
Technical director Davy-Ashmore Group, 1968-1971. Director Herbert Limited., 1972-1979. Strategic Research Centre, 1968-1972 (chairman engineering board).
American Red Cross, 1976-1982.
Created Knight, 1975. Recipient James Watt International Gold medal, 1985.
Whitworth scholar.
Achievements
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Membership
Fellow Royal Society (council 1973-1974), Institute Mechanics Engineers (council, vice president 1972, 75, senior vice president 1976, president 1977-1978, Thomas Hawksley gold medal 1948), Royal Academy Engineering (vice president 1982-1984), Institute of Civil Engineers, Consultants to Government and Industry, Institute Metals (president 1963, Robertson medal). Member Welding Institute (president 1983-1985), British Association (president section 6, 1975-1976), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (honorary), New Institute Materials (president 1985-1987).
Club: Athenaeum.
Interests
Connections
Married Wynyard Scholfield 1942 (deceased October 1991. 2 children; Married Thelma Morgan Jensen, November 30, 1993.
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Nationality
British