William Hooke *58

William Hooke, a retired physicist, died June 10, 2014, at the age of 83.

In 1953, he graduated from the University of North Carolina with a bachelor’s degree in physics. He then earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 1958.

Hooke continued on at the University, and when he retired in 1986, he was a principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at the Forrestal Research Center.

After retiring from Princeton, he moved to Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was a consulting physicist for Duke University, UNC, ITC Inc., and Kobe Steel.

Hooke was predeceased in death by Nancy, his wife of 61 years. He is survived by his son, Robert, and his grandson, William.

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