Personal
Ward's "directness and frankness often got him at odds with managers and administrators." Besides his physics, Ward was an accomplished pianist and French horn player. Although a bachelor most of his life, he was briefly married while in the US. While in Sydney, he lived at 10 Fern Street, in the northern suburb of Pymble. He has an Erdős number of 2.
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