Paul Rice Camp (December 29, 1919 – January 9, 2012) was an American academic and a professor of physics at the University of Maine.
Upon his graduation from Wesleyan University in 1941, he joined a group of scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory whose work centered on the development of radar.
[2][3][4] In 1965 and 1966, during a leave of absence from CRREL, he served as a member of the Commission on College Physics (CCP), then headquartered at the University of Michigan.
While Chair, he significantly expanded the University's focus on physics by insisting that specialists be hired in a wide variety of sub-fields within the subject.
[1][2] Camp was married to Polly Ann Newton (1934 – 2024), a Geneseo native and graduate of Wellesley College, with whom he had three daughters.