PAUL R. CAMP ‘41

PAUL R. CAMP, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maine, who established the Ph.D. program there, died Jan. 9, 2012, at age 92. He received his degree with honors and with distinction in physics. A member of Eclectic, he was elected to Sigma Xi. He received a master’s degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. After initial work with the development of radar at the Naval Research Laboratory during World War II, and a commission as an ensign, he later specialized in solid state physics, with special interest in the surface growth of ice. His professional career included teaching at Reed College and at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, as well as work at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H. Survivors include his wife, Polly Newton Camp, three daughters, five grandchildren, and a sister. He was the son of Burton H. Camp of the class of 1901, who was professor of mathematics at Wesleyan; the grandson of Charles F. Rice of the class of 1872; the nephew of William C. Rice of the class of 1901, Horace J. Rice of the class of 1905, and Paul N. Rice of the class of 1910; and the great-nephew of William N. Rice of the class of 1865, Edward H. Rice of the class of 1870, and Caroline Rice Crawford of the class of 1879.