Edward C. Booth ’49

He grew up in Southold, Long Island, and attended Phillips Exeter. He served in the Navy from 1945 to 1946, prior to entering Princeton, where he was a member of Quadrangle Club, majored in physics, and was elected to Sigma Xi. After graduation, he spent a year as a research assistant at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and then earned his doctorate in physics at Johns Hopkins.

In 1952, Ed married Patricia Shannon and in the mid-1950s, as he reported in a ’49 class reunion publication, “we put up a Techbilt summer cottage on the Sound at Southold, where we spend as much of each summer as possible.”

Ed joined the Boston University department of physics faculty in 1956 and spent his career there, retiring as professor in 1996. From 1996 to 2002, he did research at the MIT/Bates Linear Accelerator. After many years living and raising his family in Waban, Mass., he retired to Southold and was involved in the community of his hometown, serving on the board of the library and active in two churches. He was an avid ice skater, sailor, hiker, and dog lover.

Ed was predeceased by Pat, his wife of 57 years. He is survived by his four children, his grandchildren, and great-grandchild.