Peter S. Mueller ’52

Pete died March 29, 2013.

He came to Princeton from Exeter, joined Cloister Inn, and majored in biology. A member of the Premed Society, his plan for a career in medicine was brilliantly played out, as has been widely recognized — and engagingly recounted by Pete — in his entry for The Book of Our History.

His achievements in medical research and practice after the University of Rochester Medical School defy summary. He joined the Yale faculty of psychiatry after a residency at Johns Hopkins and in 1972 went to Rutgers Medical School to build a department of psychiatry. He later entered private practice, but continued his research and publication. Among other work, he helped to develop the theory of seasonal affective disorder, and patented his treatments for smoking and for uses of the drug sibutramine for a range of ailments.

Pete and Ruth (“Toni”) Shipman were married in 1958 and had four children: Anne, Peter, Paul, and Elizabeth. To them all, the class extends sympathy upon the loss of our enormously productive classmate.