Nicasio P. Marullo

Dr. Nicasio P. Marullo, PhD
Seneca, SC

After a short, but courageous battle with lung cancer, Nick, a resident of Seneca and Clemson, SC, passed away surrounded by family at his daughter's home in Greer, SC.

Nick was born to Sicilian immigrants, Gerlando and Giuseppina Marullo in Brooklyn, NY. Coming from humble beginnings, Nick was most proud of his 1948 graduation from Grover Cleveland High School in the City of NY. Nick would go on to much greater heights within the world of higher education graduating from Queens College of the City of NY in 1952 and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1961 followed by a prestigious post-doctoral appointment to California Tech. Dr. Marullo continued his passion for research and educating at Clemson College in 1961 as assistant professor of chemistry. In 1969, he received the National Science Foundation Fellowship Award and continued research at Princeton University, UCLA and the University of Strasbourg, France while remaining a full professor at Clemson University. Dr. Marullo's ground breaking research in stereochemistry would begin a long relationship as a contributing research scientist culminating in the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Cram/Lehn/and Pederson for synthesizing artificial molecules whose shapes mimicked those occurring biologically. Chemists could now reproduce life's selection processes. Dr. Marullo continued research with the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Army and NASA until his retirement in 1995. Nick was a tireless researcher, a master educator, a loyal husband, a proud father, and most of all a beaming Grandfather.

Nick is predeceased by his brother, Angelo, sister, Rose, first wife and mother of their four children, Margaret Schmidt; his second wife, Virginia Cadaret, beloved son, Stephen and best friend, Frank Mendyk.

Nick is survived by his eldest son, Jerry Marullo and wife Amanda; daughter Joanne Heijjer and husband Raymond, youngest son Billy Marullo and wife Mitzi; Grandchildren Megan, Cole, Christopher, Sophia, Stephen, Jonathan, Gianna, and Gisella; his nephew Angelo Leto; niece Joanne Quarltere, and his first cousin's wife, Linda Alletto.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 PM, Wednesday at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central.

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday at First Wesleyan Church, Central with burial to follow at Memory Gardens, Clemson.

After the service starting at 12:30 PM, the family requests that you join them to help celebrate his life, his many scientific contributions, and his favorite place (Lake Hartwell) at the Madren Center Ballroom, 230 Madren Center Drive, Clemson, SC.

Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to Mission Projects, c/o First Wesleyan Church, P.O. Box 1020, SWU 1845, Central, SC 29630 or to Doctors Without Borders, 333 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001-5004.

Condolences may be expressed online at www.robinsonfuneralhomes.com or at Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home, Central, SC.