Macquarie University
After World War II, Ward worked in several places in the United States and eventually he moved to Sydney, Australia, via New Zealand. In 1964 he created the physics program of Macquarie University using the Feynman Lectures on Physics as primary textbooks. This program had a strong experimental emphasis and Ward himself (who originally was trained as an engineer) "had great admiration for anything practical". Also, Ward regarded physics as a vocation rather than a profession. In the late 1970s he participated, with Frank Duarte, in the successful Macquarie science reform movement. and considered this a "most important accomplishment".
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