text: Turkevich married Ireene ("Renee") in September 1948. They had a son and a daughter. Turkevich had two brothers. His elder brother, John Turkevich (1907  &ndash; 1998), was Eugene Higgins Professor of Chemistry at Princeton, and his younger brother, Nicholas L. Turkevich (1918  &ndash; 2007), was an international advertising executive. Anthony Turkevich died on September 7, 2002, in Lexington, Virginia, aged 86.