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Philip Morrison

1915 - 2005

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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, high energy astrophysics, and SETI. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Morrison is the 554th most popular physicist (down from 430th in 2019), the 5,189th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,903rd in 2019) and the 117th most popular American Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Philip Morrison ranks 554 out of 851. Before him are Ludvig Faddeev, Gunnar Nordström, Woldemar Voigt, Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Gene Amdahl, and Robert H. Dicke. After him are Richard Mollier, Ursula Franklin, Knut Ångström, Giuseppe Occhialini, William Astbury, and Samuel T. Cohen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Philip Morrison ranks 141. Before him are Robert Motherwell, Zulfiya, Else Krüger, Hans Christian Blech, Alan Lomax, and Robert Monroe. After him are Argemiro, Aldo Boffi, Edmond Leburton, John Tukey, Antonio Innocenti, and Karl Leisner. Among people deceased in 2005, Philip Morrison ranks 160. Before him are Don Adams, Romano Scarpa, Lajos Baróti, Laurel Aitken, Kevin Hagen, and Rong Yiren. After him are Milorad Pavić, Milena Hübschmannová, André Waterkeyn, Hans Clarin, Saunders Mac Lane, and Zainab al Ghazali.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Morrison ranks 5,189 out of 20,380. Before him are Emily Deschanel (1976), Rhonda Fleming (1923), Jackson Showalter (1860), Kate Walsh (1967), Robert H. Dicke (1916), and Albert George Wilson (1918). After him are Ted Cassidy (1932), Ken Walsh (1945), Jackie Earle Haley (1961), Thomas C. Kinkaid (1888), George Burns (1896), and Sam Wanamaker (1919).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Philip Morrison ranks 117. Before him are Leona Woods (1919), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), Gerard K. O'Neill (1927), Grote Reber (1911), Gene Amdahl (1922), and Robert H. Dicke (1916). After him are Samuel T. Cohen (1921), Eric Allin Cornell (1961), Wallace Clement Sabine (1868), Norman Holter (1914), Kenneth Bainbridge (1904), and John Henry Schwarz (1941).

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