Obituaries

Harvey Stuart Price, 62, died Aug. 7 of esophageal cancer. Price was an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington before he joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1973 he became vice president and general counsel of the Atomic Industrial Forum, a trade association that later became the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness, which in turn merged with several other nuclear energy industry organizations in 1994 to become NEI. Price also worked in the biotechnology field, as founder and first executive director of the Industrial Biotechnology Association (now the Biotechnology Industry Organization), then as a consultant in issues related to biotechnology and the law, and as a part-time executive with biotechnology trade groups.

George Alonzo Ferguson Jr., founder of Howard University’s nuclear engineering program, died of cancer Aug. 14. He was 82. From 1966 to 1986, Ferguson served on the faculty of the School of Engineering at Howard University, where he founded and directed the nuclear engineering program. Ferguson also conducted research for the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory from 1954 to 1975. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Howard University and a doctorate in physics from the Catholic University of America. After retiring from academia, Ferguson was an administrative judge for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.