Richard Morrow, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maine, died March 11, 2019, at age 81.
Morrow graduated in 1957 from Queens University in Ontario, Canada, with a degree in physics/engineering, and in 1958 he earned a master’s degree in physics from the University of British Columbia. In 1963, he earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton, where he met and married his wife.
In 1970 he went to the University of Maine, after teaching at Princeton and Dartmouth College. He taught at Maine for 35 years and chaired the physics department for five years, before retiring as professor emeritus.
Morrow ran almost daily until age 80, and enjoyed physical labor, from mowing a large lawn with a hand-mower to digging postholes to maintaining a large vegetable garden. He was a fixer of many things, from an old clothes dryer to a computer glitch. In retirement, he and his wife traveled to Europe and throughout the U.S. and Canada. He became a U.S. citizen in 2004.
Morrow is survived by his wife of 55 years, Terri; two daughters; and three grandchildren.
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