Richard Hoover Busey, a resident of Greenfield Senior Living of Oak Ridge, died Sunday, August 3, at Methodist Medical Center of complications related to his diabetes.

He was born April 6, 1919, in Cairo, Illinois, and is survived by his wife Mary, to whom he was married for 71 years. The Buseys made their home on South Tampa Lane in the Elm Grove neighborhood of Oak Ridge for over 55 years.

Busey grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1941. He acquired a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1949 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner William F. Giauque. [Read more…]