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About Richard Fork
- Richard Fork (1 September 1935 – 16 May 2018) was an American physicist. Fork received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Principia College in 1957, and earned his doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- He began working for Bell Laboratories in 1962, and joined the faculty of Rensselaer Institute of Technology in 1990.
- Four years later, Fork left Rensselaer for the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
- Over the course of his career, Fork was granted fellowship of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America.
- He retired in 2017 and died on May 16, 2018 of respiratory arrest in Huntsville.
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