Ian Morley Duck was born on October 4, 1933 in Kamloops, BC, Canada and passed away on August 4, 2019 in Houston, TX, USA.
Raised on the family ranch near Kamloops. Schooled in a one-room log cabin with ten others in eight grades, graduated Kamloops High School (1950), then B.Sc. (engineering physics) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (1955) and Ph.D. (theoretical physics) Caltech (1961). Professor of physics at Rice University in Houston from 1963 to 2008, specializing in nuclear and particle physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics.