Kent Ford (astronomer)

William Ford Jr.
Born8 April 1931
Clifton Forge, Virginia, United States
Died18 June 2023(2023-06-18) (aged 92)
Alma materUniversity of Virginia (PhD)
Children2 sons and 1 daughter

William Kent Ford Jr. (April 8, 1931 – June 18, 2023) was an American astronomer involved with the discovery of dark matter. He worked with scientist Vera Rubin, who used his advanced spectrometer in her studies of space and matter. Using this spectrometer to analyze the Doppler shifts of galaxies as a function of distance from their centers, the pair was able to demonstrate that dark matter existed and was widespread. Ford received the 1985 James Craig Watson Medal for his work on image enhancement and galactic dynamics. Ford died on June 18, 2023, at the age of 92.

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