Richard Bube, professor emeritus of physics at Stanford, died June 9, 2018, at age 90.

Bube graduated from Brown in 1946 and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1950. He was on the staff of the RCA Research Laboratories in Princeton from 1948 to 1962. That year, he joined Stanford and served as a professor in the departments of materials science and electrical engineering until retiring in 1992.

From 1975 to 1986 he was chair of the materials science department. He worked on the photoelectric properties of materials, including photoconductivity, luminescence, photovoltaic effects, semiconductors, and solar-energy conversion. Bube wrote six scientific books and more than 300 research publications, and he supervised 56 Ph.D. students.

Bube was a dedicated Christian as well as a dedicated scientist. He wrote an additional seven books and more than 100 articles on issues in science and Christianity, and saw no conflict between genuine science and authentic Christianity. He taught an undergraduate seminar at Stanford for 25 years on the interaction between science and Christianity.

Bube was predeceased in 1997 by his first wife, Betty Jane. He is survived by his second wife, Mary Anne; four children; and five grandchildren.

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Graduate Class of 1950