Richard B. Simpson ’41

DICK SIMPSON, a retired chemist who had specialized in hemoglobin at the Natl. Institute of Health, died of cancer at his home in Bethesda on Oct. 11, 1994. Born in Johnstown, Dick grew up in Windber, Pa. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa, he served in the Navy during the war, then returned to Princeton for his doctorate in chemistry and went on to Harvard as a postdoctoral fellow at its medical school. He joined the Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases at the N.I.H. in 1952, where he studied blood proteins and other macromolecules.

Dick helped with the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and Inner City Outings, and was a volunteer tutor in the Montgomery County public school system. He was a member of the Edgemoor Tennis club in Bethesda.

His widow, Ruth, survives. In addition, Dick leaves three children, Barton Murray, Brenna Gillespie, and Rachel Ann. We extend deep sympathy to them.