Brian ford biography

British academic and author (born )

Brian J. Ford
Born	(age&#;85&#;86) Corsham, Wiltshire, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Scientist, author and broadcaster

Brian J.

FordHonFLSHonFRMS (born on May 13, in Corsham, Wiltshire^[1]) is an independent research biologist, author, and lecturer, who publishes on scientific issues for the general public. He has also been a television personality for more than 40 years. Ford is an international authority on the microscope.^[2] Throughout his career, Ford has been associated with many academic bodies.

He was elected a Fellow of Cardiff University in , was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester,^[3] and has been awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society^[4] and of the Linnean Society of London.^[5] In America, he was awarded the inaugural Köhler Medal^[6] and was recently recipient of the Ernst Abbe medal awarded by the New York Microscopical Society.^[7] In he was awarded a personal fellowship from NESTA,^[8] the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

During those three years he delivered lectures in scores of countries, meeting 10, people in over universities around the world.

Education

Ford attended the King's School, Peterborough, and then Cardiff University to study botany and zoology between and , leaving before graduating to set up his own multi-disciplinary laboratory.^[9]

Career and positions

Universities

Learned Societies

Other positions

He was the first British President of the European Union of Science Journalists' Associations,^{[citation needed]} founding Chairman of the Science and Technology Authors Committee at the Society of Authors, ^{[citation needed]} and the president of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) of Cambridge University.^[17] Ford has been a member of Mensa and was a director of British Mensa from –, resigning a few months after being elected for a second term.^[18][19] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society in

aquatic dinosaur hypothesis

In the April issue of Laboratory News, Ford put forward the idea that all large dinosaurs were aquatic, arguing that they were too large and heavy to be land animals.^[20]

Although evidence has been presented for some dinosaurs like spinosaurids being partially aquatic, reaction to Ford's theory that the majority of dinosaurs being largely aquatic have been highly, if not universally negative, with other experts in the fields of paleontology and paleobiology having continuously disproven or refuted Ford's claims, with some suggesting Ford's hypotheses could be relegated as fringe theories.

Brian ford chef Ford's scientific research has been widely featured on news networks like CNN, and in documentaries for the History and Military networks, and also for the Discovery Channel. Society, Institute Biology chairman history committee since , public policy committee since , council since , Cambridge Philosophical Society. Read Edit View history. Royal Microscopical Society.

Several paleontologists, such as Darren Naish, have directly countered Ford in his arguments using documented evidence of dinosaurs being terrestrial to back their rebuttals to his work.^[21][22][23]

Bibliography

Books

• Allied Secret Weapons: the War of Science; Weapons Book #19, ISBN&#; .

  USA Ballantine Books, ISBN&#;, UK, Macdonald,

• Microbiology and food, ISBN&#; (hardback), UK, Catering Times, ISBN&#; (paperback). UK, Northwood,
• German secret weapons, blueprint for Mars, ISBN&#; Australia, South Africa, & New Zealand, Macdonald.
• Nonscience . . . or how to rule the world, ISBN&#; UK, Wolfe,
• The optical microscope manual, past and present uses and techniques, ISBN&#; UK, David & Charles, ISBN&#; USA, Crane Russak,
• The revealing lens, mankind and the microscope, ISBN&#; UK, George Harrap,
• Microbe power, tomorrow's revolution, ISBN&#; UK, Macdonald and Jane's, ISBN&#; USA, Stein and Day,
• Patterns of sex, the mating urge and our sexual future, ISBN&#; UK, Macdonald and Janes, ISBN&#; USA, St Martin's Press,
• The Cult of the expert (hardback)ISBN&#;, (paperback) UK, Transworld,
• questions about science, ISBN&#; UK, Hamish Hamilton,
• more questions about science, ISBN&#;X.

  UK, Hamish Hamilton,

• Single lens, the story of the simple microscope, ISBN&#; UK, William Heinemann, ISBN&#; USA, Harper & Row,
• Compute, how, where, why do you really need to?ISBN&#;X.

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UK, Hamish Hamilton,

• The food book, ISBN&#; UK, Hamish Hamilton,
• The human body, ISBN&#; UK, Belitha Books, ISBN&#;X. USA, Belitha,
• The Leeuwenhoek legacy, ISBN&#; UK, Biopress, ISBN&#; UK, Farrand Press,
• Images of science, a history of scientific illustration, ISBN&#; UK, British Library, ISBN&#; USA, Oxford University Press,
• My first encyclopaedia of science, ISBN&#; UK, Kingfisher Books,
• The new Guinness book of records quiz book, ISBN&#; UK, Guinness Publishing,
• BSE the facts, ISBN&#; UK, Transworld,
• Genes, the fight for life, ISBN&#; UK, Cassells, ISBN&#; USA, Sterling Publications,
• Sensitive souls, senses and communication in plants, animals and microbes, ISBN&#; UK, Little, Brown,
• The Future of food, ISBN&#; UK, Thames & Hudson, ISBN&#; USA and Canada, Thames & Hudson,
• Secret language of life, how animals and plants feel and communicate, ISBN&#; USA, Fromm International,
• Using the digital microscope, ISBN&#;X.

  UK, Rothay House,

• Secret Weapons: Technology, Science and the Race to Win World War II, ISBN&#; UK, Osprey Publishing,
• Too Big To Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs, ISBN&#; UK, William Collins,
• Nonscience Returns, ISBN&#;, UK, Curtis Press,

Audio Book

• Understanding Viruses, 30 Questions, 25 Geniuses, Amazing Insights, ISBN&#; USA, Finding Genius Foundation,

Book chapters

• "The recovery, removal, and reconstruction of human skeletal remains, some new techniques", chapter in Field manual for museums.

  Paris, UNESCO,

• "Récuperation, enlèvement et reconstitution des ossements", chapter in Musées et recherches sur le terrain. Paris, UNESCO,
• Brian J Ford explains why he considers Cardiff the most unappreciated city in the world, chapter in The Cardiff book, ISBN&#; Barry: Stewart Williams Publishers,
• "Discharge to the environment of viruses in wastewater, sludges and aerosols", chapter with JS Slade in Viral pollution of the environment, ed: G Berg, ISBN&#; Boca Raton, CRC Press,
• "Sexually transmitted diseases", chapter in Sex and Your Health ed J Bevan, ISBN&#; London, Mitchell Beazley,
• "Las Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual y Otras que las Imitan", chapter in El Sexo y la Salud ed J Bevan, ISBN&#; Barcelona, Editorial Planeta,
• "Exploring South Wales", chapter in Walking in Britain, ed J.

  Hillaby, ISBN&#; London: William Collins,

• Robert Hooke, an introduction to Hooke's Micrographia, commentary on CD-ROM edition of Micrographia, ISBN&#; Palo Alto, Octavo,
• "Witnessing the birth of the microscope", photoessay in Millennium yearbook of science and the future, ISBN&#; Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica,
• "Eighteenth-century scientific publishing", chapter in Scientific books, libraries and collectors, ISBN&#; London, Thornton & Tully,
• "Scientific Illustration", chapter in vol 4 of The Cambridge history of science, ed R Porter ISBN&#; Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
• "Hidden secrets in the Royal Society archive", chapter 3 in Biological collections and biodiversity, eds BS Rushton, P Hackney and CR Tyrie, ISBN&#; Otley, Westbury Academic and Scientific Publishing,
• "Trouble on the hoof, disease outbreaks in Europe," chapter in book of the year, ISBN&#; Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica,
• "Human behaviour and the changing pattern of disease", chapter in The changing face of disease, implications for society, ISBN&#; London and Boca Raton, CRC Press,
• "What Next After SARS?" (Severe acute respiratory syndrome), chapter in book of the year, ISBN&#; Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica,
• "Bird flu, the next pandemic?", chapter in book of the year, ISBN&#; Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica,
• "Robert Hooke", [in] The Great Naturalists, ISBN&#;, editor Rob Huxley, Natural History Museum, UK: Thames & Hudson,
• "Antony van Leeuwenhoek" [in] The Great Naturalists, ISBN&#;, editor Rob Huxley, Natural History Museum, UK: Thames & Hudson,
• "Cork and blood smear with Leeuwenhoek microscope" [in] Introduction to Microbiology, ISBN&#;, US: Sudbury MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, Inc.,
• "Microscopy in early neurology" [in] Whitaker, Harry; Smith, C.

  U. M. & Finger, Stan, (editors) Brain, Mind and Medicine: essays in 18th century neuroscience, ISBN&#; Springer,

• "Did Physics matter to the Pioneers of Microscopy?" [in] Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics , Editor Professor Peter W Hawkes, ISBN&#; New York: Academic Press,
• "Culturing Meat for the Future: Anti-death versus anti-life", [in] Tandy, Charles (editor) Death And Anti-Death, Volume 7, ISBN&#; Palo Alto: Ria University Press,
• "The Future of Food" [in] Faculty of Medicine Study manual, (two volumes).

  Japan: Z-kai Inc., Shizuoka,

• "Robert Brown's Microscope, ", [in] 50 Objects, Stories and Discoveries, ISBN&#; London: Linnean Society,

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