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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philip Morrison has received more than 314,768 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Philip Morrison is the 429th most popular physicist, the 2,903rd most popular biography from United States and the 88th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 1.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Philip Morrison ranks 429 out of 851. Before him are Federico Faggin, Saul Perlmutter, Ludvig Lorenz, Johann Andreas Segner, Karl Guthe Jansky, and Robert J. Van de Graaff. After him are Douglas Hofstadter, Mildred Dresselhaus, Bruno Rossi, Giovanni Battista Amici, Hendrik Casimir, and Anatoli Bugorski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Philip Morrison ranks 92. Before him are Jo Van Fleet, Loris Francesco Capovilla, Tapio Wirkkala, Shogo Kamo, Mariano Rumor, and Piet de Jong. After him are Horst Sindermann, László Csatáry, Prince George William of Hanover, André Frossard, Caterina Boratto, and J. C. R. Licklider. Among people deceased in 2005, Philip Morrison ranks 93. Before him are Jef Raskin, Julio César Turbay Ayala, Edward Bunker, Erich Topp, George Mikan, and Simone Simon. After him are Ghena Dimitrova, Leo Sternbach, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, George P. Cosmatos, Lazar Berman, and Kocheril R. Narayanan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Philip Morrison ranks 2,903 out of 20,380. Before him are August Derleth (1909), Carl Brashear (1931), Henry Hill (1943), Leon Russom (1941), Marty Friedman (1962), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901). After him are J. Walter Christie (1865), Lincoln Ellsworth (1880), Mark Dacascos (1964), Delbert Mann (1920), Woody Strode (1914), and Milton L. Humason (1891).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Philip Morrison ranks 88. Before him are Robert Serber (1909), Evelyn Fox Keller (1936), Leonard Susskind (1940), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Robert J. Van de Graaff (1901). After him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), Robert W. Wood (1868), Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898), Richard C. Tolman (1881), and Lyman Spitzer (1914).

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