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A 90-year-old retired nuclear physicist was found stabbed to death inside his west-end apartment on Monday night.

It was his family who first discovered the man’s body around 10:30 p.m. Monday at The Conservatory building at 1025 Grenon Ave. after they had grown concerned that John Hulbert had been out of touch in recent days. Police then began their homicide probe.

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Hulbert had been living alone at the time of his death. He was predeceased by his first wife Elizabeth in 2005. The pair met in England. He met second wife Bernice when they both volunteered on their condo’s social committee in Ottawa. They married in 2014. Bernice died in 2018. Hulbert is survived by his three sons and his extended family.

Hulbert had been retired for nearly 30 years but worked much of his life in nuclear physics research.

In Canada, he worked at Chalk River Laboratories, where the first nuclear reactor outside of the United States was operational. It’s research facility was located in nearby Deep River, Ont.