Philip Morrison
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Philip Morrison
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November 7, 1915 Somerville, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | April 22, 2005 (aged 89) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions |
San Francisco State University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Manhattan Project Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater |
Carnegie Tech University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Three Problems in Atomic Electrodynamics (1940) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Known for | SETI, science education |
| Notable awards |
Babson Prize of the Gravity Foundation |
| Spouse | Emily Kramer (1938–1961) Phylis Hagen (1965–2002) |
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Babson Prize of the Gravity Foundation
Westinghouse Science Writing Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Oersted Medal of the American Association of Physics Teachers
Priestley Medallion of Dickinson College
Presidential Award of the New York Academy of Sciences
Public Service Medal of the Minnesota Museum of Science
Andrew Gemant Award of the American Institute of Physics
Philip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics.
A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Morrison became interested in physics, which he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He also joined the Communist Party. During World War II he joined the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he worked with Eugene Wigner on the design of nuclear reactors.
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