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		</div><p>Peter Buck, whose 1,000 US dollars (£750) investment in a family friend’s Connecticut sandwich shop in 1965 provided the genesis for what is now the world’s largest restaurant chain — Subway — has died. He was 90.</p>
<p>Buck, a nuclear physicist who was born in Portland, Maine, in 1930, died at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, on November 18, Subway said in a statement. The cause of his death was not disclosed.</p>
<p>At 17, family friend Fred DeLuca had asked Buck how he could make some money to help pay for college. Buck’s answer? Open a sandwich shop.</p>
<p>In 1965, he and DeLuca opened “Pete’s Super Submarines” in Bridgeport, with the priciest sandwich selling for 69 cents (52p).</p>
<p>The duo changed the name to “Subway” three years later and decided to turn it into a chain by franchising — a move that would eventually make both of them billionaires. Forbes estimated Buck’s net worth at $1.7 billion. DeLuca died in 2015 at age 67.</p>
<p>Subway says it now has more than 40,000 locations worldwide, topping McDonald’s and Starbucks.</p>
<p>“We didn’t make a profit for 15 years,” Buck told The Wall Street Journal in 2014.</p>
<p>Asked if he ever thought the chain would grow so big, he told the newspaper, “I always thought we’d get bigger and bigger, but I really didn’t have a certain number in mind.”</p>
<p>As a physicist, Buck was hired by General Electric in 1957 at a laboratory in Schenectady, New York, and worked on atomic power plants for US Navy submarines and ships.</p>
<p>He later worked for United Nuclear in White Plains, New York, and Nuclear Energy Services in Danbury, where he made his home, according to an obituary prepared by his family.</p>
<p>He also pursued philanthropy, making significant donations to many organisations including the Smithsonian Institution, to which he gave a 23-carat ruby named after his late second wife, Carmen Lucia Buck, in 2004.</p>
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