Victor G. Bruce died Friday, May 29 at his home in Princeton, N.J., after a short struggle with cancer. He was 88.
He was born August 10, 1920, in Butte, Mont. His father was a mining engineer with Cyprus Mines Corp., and Victor spent his youth in Cyprus, Colorado and California.
While his family lived in Cyprus, he attended the American Community School in Beirut. He received his undergraduate degree from Cal Tech in 1942, and a PhD from Stanford in 1950.
During World War II, he worked at the MIT radiation lab on the development of radar. After post-doctoral studies at Cal Tech and the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen, he joined the faculty of the biology department of Princeton University in 1956, where he remained until his retirement in 1982. His primary research focus was circadian rhythms in biological clocks.
He spent summers with his family in Chilmark from 1968 to the present.
He is survived by his wife Nancy; three sons, Peter and his wife Liz, James and his wife Kathleen, and Andrew and his wife Deborah; and grandchildren Lisa, Emily, Allison, Martha, Sally, Aaron, Nicola and Ella.
Memorial contributions may be made in his name to The Nature Conservancy, Attention: Treasury (Web/Support), 4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203.
Arrangements were under the care of the Kimble Funeral Home in Princetown, N.J.. Online condolences may be sent to thekimblefuneralhome.com
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