Elting E. Morison

Elting Elmore Morison (December 14, 1909 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – April 20, 1995 in Peterborough, New Hampshire) was an American historian of technology, military biographer, author of nonfiction books, and essayist. He was an MIT professor emeritus, and the founder of their program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS).

Morison, a grand-nephew of the engineer George S. Morison, was born in Milwaukee. He studied at Harvard University, earning an BA degree in 1932 and an MA in 1934, returning in 1935-1937 as assistant dean. In 1935 he married Anne Hitchcock Sims, daughter of U.S. Admiral William Sims, whose biography he published in 1942 a few months after the Pearl Harbor Attack, becoming the standard scholary biography.

During World War II Morison served in the U.S. Naval Reserve.

Morison first came to MIT in 1946 as an assistant professor of humanities in the Sloan School of Industrial Management.

In 1948 the Roosevelt Memorial Association hired Morison as director of the Theodore Roosevelt Research Project, which resulted in the 8-volume standard work The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (1951-1954) (including his autobiography), of which he was the editor. Fellow MIT professor John Morton Blum was co-editor.

In 1966 Morison joined Yale University as master of Timothy Dwight College and as a professor of history and American studies.

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