Hugh Ford (engineer)

{{for|other people by this name|Hugh Ford (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use British English|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Hugh Ford | image = Hugh_Ford_(engineer).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1913|07|16}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2010|05|28|1913|07|16}} | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | residence = | citizenship = | fields = | workplaces = [[Imperial Chemical Industries]] [[Imperial College London]] [[Great Western Railway]] | alma_mater = [[Imperial College London]] | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = [[Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref name="frs"/> [[James Watt International Medal]] [[Royal Academy of Engineering|FREng]]{{citation needed|date=April 2013}} | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = | spouse = Wynyard Scholfield (1942–1991) Thelma Jensen (since 1993) | children = }}

'''Sir Hugh Ford''' [[FREng]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Gordon |date=January 2013 |title=Sir Hugh Ford. 16 July 1913 — 28 May 2010 |url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2012.0041 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |language=en |volume=59 |pages=145–156 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2012.0041 |doi-access=free|issn=0080-4606|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Williams | first1 = G. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2012.0041 | doi-access = free| title = Sir Hugh Ford. 16 July 1913 -- 28 May 2010 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | year = 2013 | volume = 59 | pages = 145–156 }}</ref> (16 July 1913 – 28 May 2010) was a British engineer. He was Professor of [[Applied Mechanics]] at [[Imperial College London]] from 1951 to 1978.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/7852327/Professor-Sir-Hugh-Ford.html|title=Professor Sir Hugh Ford|date=24 June 2010|work=telegraph.co.uk|access-date=6 July 2010|location=London}}</ref>

==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 [[Joseph Whitworth#Awards and memorials|Whitworth scholarship]], where earned a first-class degree, and won the Bramwell Medal.<ref>[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mechanicalengineering/study/prizes Imperial College London Prizes]</ref> He earned a PhD in heat transfer and fluid flow.<ref name="IndyObit">{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sir-hugh-ford-doyen-of-mechanical-engineering-who-contributed-to-many-major-technological-advances-2048867.html | location=London | work=The Independent | title=Professor Sir Hugh Ford: Doyen of mechanical engineering who contributed to many major technological advances | date=11 August 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="IndyObit" />

==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 [[Royal Society#Fellows|Fellow of the Royal Society]]<ref name="frs"/> in 1967 and [[knight]]ed 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]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00svv6n#synopsis Last Word 02/07/2010 Synopsis]</ref>

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