Royce W. Murray (January 9, 1937 – July 6, 2022) was an American chemist and chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Here he became familiar with electrical meters, generators, lathes, wiring diagrams, and insulating materials, as well as scrap metal from the War, 50-call ammo, and gunpowder, foreshadowing his career in electrochemistry.

[4] Murray graduated from Birmingham Southern College with a focus in chemistry, having switched from the pre-ministerial program.

He then attended graduate school at Northwestern University, where he worked with Richard Bowers and Don DeFord, and began tinkering with chronoamperometry and chronopotentiometry.

After graduating from Northwestern in three years, Murray became an instructor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.