R Kent CrawfordR. Kent Crawford grew up in the house built by his great grandmother on the central Kansas farm that his great grandparents homesteaded in the late 1800s. After attending public school in the nearby town of Luray, he obtained a bachelor's degree in pysics from Kansas State University and a PhD in physics from Princeton University. He spent his professional career primarily at Argonne National Laboratory and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, authoring numerous technical articles and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Since his retirement he has spent his spare time researching and writing articles about various aspects of his family's history. This is his second non-technical book about Kansas. Read More Read Less