Edward Mac Ford Nichol Jr. ’41

Ted died March 14, 2004, after a distinguished career in science.

He came to Princeton from South Hamilton, Mass. At college he majored in physics and was a member of Terrace Club. Married in September 1940, he continued his studies and graduated with our class.

After graduation, Ted joined the staff of MIT Radiation Laboratory, where he helped design and develop radar air-tracking equipment. Following the war, he studied biophysics at the Johnson Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania. Ted was awarded a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1952, and then taught there for 13 years before becoming director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and acting director of the National Eye Institute.

In 1973, Ted became a research scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., heading the Laboratory of Sensory Physiology. In 1986, he became a professor of physiology at Boston University before retiring at 86.

He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Thorne MacNichol, as well as his first wife, Anne Ayer MacNichol, and their children, Edward III and Anne Brownell; his stepchildren Elizabeth, Cam, Scott, David, and Duncan Thorne, and five grandchildren.

The Class of 1941