James L. Martin III ’62

Jim died of kidney disease Oct. 21, 2024, at his home in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

He attended Thomas Edison High School in Tulsa, Okla., where his special interests were creative writing and theater. He was the fourth in his family to attend Princeton, following his father, grandfather, and grand uncle. At Princeton, he majored in biology, dined at Campus Club, and roomed with Frank Carr and Arnold Zwicky. He worked at the Nassau Lit and performed as a guest artist in senior plays at Miss Fine’s School.

After graduating, Jim worked as a lab technician for Exxon Production Research and at the UCLA Brain Research Institute. He earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and remained in Texas teaching and doing medical research. He married Deborah Hayes in 1981 and two years later they moved to Colorado, where they remained until Jim retired in 2023. He worked as a research scientist and software engineer for a number of corporations, including Advance Geophysical Corp., and Sienna Imaging.

In addition to his wife, Jim is survived by siblings Anne Hill, John Martin, and Ross Martin. The class extends its sympathy to the family.