In Loving Memory of Dr. Robert Harold Price
April 9, 1949-June 25, 2025
Dr. Robert Harold Price, PhD died peacefully on June 25, 2025 at the age of 76 at his home in Belen, New Mexico. He was born on April 9, 1949 in Lansing, Michigan to Drs. Vincent and Florence (Viancour)
Price. He was named for his maternal grandfather Robert Viancour and his father's brother Harold who died heroically in WWII. He spent his first 2 years with his maternal grandparents Rob and Jenny Viancour while his father was on a research assignment overseas. Grandpa Rob had come to Lansing at age 12 and eventually became foreman at the REO Oldsmobile Factory in Lansing. Bob loved visiting Grandpa Rob's workshop and there developed a love for all things mechanical.
His parents moved to Bethesda, MD in 1951 where Vince became a researcher and eventually a director of NIGMS at NIH, where he helped to create the M.D.-PhD program that is now used nationwide. Bob's mother Florence started a house call medical practice in the basement of their new home. As Bob entered his teen years he became more and more interested in physics and the emerging space technologies of the 1960s, so much so that he could have (and perhaps was?) a prototype for Sheldon Cooper's character in the Big Bang Theory. After many frustrating failures he was able to build a functioning linear accelerator in his family's basement, an amazing accomplishment that won
him acceptance to MIT.
Bob was also a wonderful singer and dancer, earning the title of "Disco Bob" during the late 70s from his cousins. Like Sheldon Cooper he was a lifelong lover of cats and owner of many. At MIT he pursued a Bachelor's degree in Physics (1971) and a PhD in Physics (1977).
After graduation from MIT he took positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and later Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was proud to have worked on the Star Wars National Defense
Program under the Reagan Administration. He advocated for the advancement of nuclear fusion as a safer power source than nuclear fission.
Above all Bob was a kind, gentle and fun loving man. He will be dearly missed. He is survived by his sister Patricia (Partridge), his brothers Jim Price (Suzanne) and Daniel Price (Amy), nieces Jessica
Czerny (Dave) and Charlotte Price, and nephews Nicholas Price and Bob Price. He is also survived by cousins Brian Price (Susan), Carol Ann Price (Santo), Linda Mazawey (Larry), and Larry Laird, and by grandnephew Will Czerny and grandniece Sunday Czerny. He was preceded in death by his parents, a younger brother Richard who died at birth, brother-in-law Charles Partridge and cousins Shirley Viancour and Larry Price.
If there are more Northern Lights than usual in the coming years it will be Bob having fun making
them even more wonderful.
April 9, 1949-June 25, 2025
Dr. Robert Harold Price, PhD died peacefully on June 25, 2025 at the age of 76 at his home in Belen, New Mexico. He was born on April 9, 1949 in Lansing, Michigan to Drs. Vincent and Florence (Viancour)
Price. He was named for his maternal grandfather Robert Viancour and his father's brother Harold who died heroically in WWII. He spent his first 2 years with his maternal grandparents Rob and Jenny Viancour while his father was on a research assignment overseas. Grandpa Rob had come to Lansing at age 12 and eventually became foreman at the REO Oldsmobile Factory in Lansing. Bob loved visiting Grandpa Rob's workshop and there developed a love for all things mechanical.
His parents moved to Bethesda, MD in 1951 where Vince became a researcher and eventually a director of NIGMS at NIH, where he helped to create the M.D.-PhD program that is now used nationwide. Bob's mother Florence started a house call medical practice in the basement of their new home. As Bob entered his teen years he became more and more interested in physics and the emerging space technologies of the 1960s, so much so that he could have (and perhaps was?) a prototype for Sheldon Cooper's character in the Big Bang Theory. After many frustrating failures he was able to build a functioning linear accelerator in his family's basement, an amazing accomplishment that won
him acceptance to MIT.
Bob was also a wonderful singer and dancer, earning the title of "Disco Bob" during the late 70s from his cousins. Like Sheldon Cooper he was a lifelong lover of cats and owner of many. At MIT he pursued a Bachelor's degree in Physics (1971) and a PhD in Physics (1977).
After graduation from MIT he took positions at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and later Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was proud to have worked on the Star Wars National Defense
Program under the Reagan Administration. He advocated for the advancement of nuclear fusion as a safer power source than nuclear fission.
Above all Bob was a kind, gentle and fun loving man. He will be dearly missed. He is survived by his sister Patricia (Partridge), his brothers Jim Price (Suzanne) and Daniel Price (Amy), nieces Jessica
Czerny (Dave) and Charlotte Price, and nephews Nicholas Price and Bob Price. He is also survived by cousins Brian Price (Susan), Carol Ann Price (Santo), Linda Mazawey (Larry), and Larry Laird, and by grandnephew Will Czerny and grandniece Sunday Czerny. He was preceded in death by his parents, a younger brother Richard who died at birth, brother-in-law Charles Partridge and cousins Shirley Viancour and Larry Price.
If there are more Northern Lights than usual in the coming years it will be Bob having fun making
them even more wonderful.
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