Jan 09, 2013  Drop a coin on a table and listen for the clear 'ring' that helps us find the 'truth'. The scientists Morrison combine history and engineering to show how scientists since the Renaissance have gotten at the truth. A great book full of anecdotes and brings you the sociology, archeology, history and practice of science.

U.S.NationalityUnited StatesAlma materKnown for, science educationSpouse(s)Emily Kramer (1938–1961)Phylis Hagen (1965–2002)AwardsBabson Prize of the Gravity FoundationWestinghouse Science Writing Award of theOersted Medal of the American Association of Physics TeachersPriestley Medallion ofPresidential Award of thePublic Service Medal of the Minnesota Museum of Scienceof theWheeler Prize (with Phylis Morrison) of theScientific careerFieldsAstrophysicsInstitutionsThree Problems in Atomic Electrodynamics (1940)SignaturePhilip Morrison (November 7, 1915 – April 22, 2005) was a of at the (MIT). He is known for his work on the during, and for his later work in, and high energy.A graduate of, Morrison became interested in physics, which he studied at the, under the supervision of. He also joined the. During he joined the 's at the, where he worked with on the design of.In 1944 he moved to the Manhattan Project's in, where he worked with on the development of required to detonate the. Morrison transported the of the device to the test site in the back seat of a Dodge sedan. As leader of 's pit crew he helped load the atomic bombs on board the aircraft that participated in the. After the war ended, he traveled to Hiroshima as part of the Manhattan Project's mission to assess the damage.After the war he became a champion of.

He wrote for the, and helped found the and the. He was one of the few ex-communists to remain employed and academically active throughout the 1950s, but his research turned away from nuclear physics towards astrophysics. He published papers on, and a 1958 paper of his is considered to mark the birth of. He was also known for writing books and articles, and appearing in television programs. Contents.Early life and education Philip Morrison was born in, November 7, 1915, the only son of Moses Morrison and Tillie Rosenbloom. He had a younger sister, Gail. The family moved to when he was two.

He contracted when he was four, and as a result wore a caliper on one leg, and spent his last years in a wheelchair. Because of his polio, Morrison did not commence school until the third grade.On graduating from high school he entered, planning to major in. While there he became interested in. He earned his (B.S.) in 1936.

He then entered the, where he earned his in in 1940 under the supervision of, writing his thesis on 'Three Problems in Atomic Electrodynamics'.In 1938, Morrison married Emily Kramer, a girl he had known in high school, and a fellow Carnegie Tech graduate. They divorced in 1961.

In 1965 he married Phylis Hagen. They remained together until Phylis died in 2002. Manhattan Project After he finished his Ph.D. Morrison took a position as an instructor at. In 1941 he became an instructor at the. In December 1942, with raging around the globe, he was recruited by to join the 's at the in January 1943. There he worked with on the design of.Concerned about the danger from the, Morrison helped persuade the director of the Manhattan Project, to initiate the in order to gather information on it.With the work in Chicago winding down in mid-1944, Morrison moved to the Manhattan Project's in New Mexico as a group leader.

His first task was to help determine how much a bomb would require. He calculated that 6 kilograms (13 lb) would be sufficient.

He then worked with on the required to detonate the.Morrison transported the of the gadget to the test site in the back seat of a Dodge sedan. He was an eyewitness to the test on July 16, 1945, and wrote a report on it. A month later, as leader of 's pit crew, he helped load the atomic bombs on board the aircraft that participated in the. After the war ended, Morrison and traveled to Hiroshima as part of the Manhattan Project's mission to assess the damage. Activism Morrison returned to Los Alamos, where he remained until 1946. He turned down an offer from to return to Berkeley, and instead accepted an invitation from to join him at the faculty at.After surveying the destruction left by the use of the atom bomb in Hiroshima, Morrison became a champion of. He wrote for the, and helped found the and the.

He testified before Congress on the need for civilian control of nuclear energy, and participated in the in and the in 1949. That year, magazine included his image in a gallery of 'America's 50 most eminent dupes and '.Morrison had joined the while he was at Berkeley. The devoted four pages of a 1951 report to his activities, and in 1953, he was called before the., the President of Cornell, was put under great pressure from board members and alumni to fire Morrison, but Bethe remained supportive, and declared that Morrison had 'demonstrated his patriotism by the distinguished role he played in the wartime development of the atomic bomb.' , who became president of Cornell in 1951, was much less sympathetic, and instructed Morrison to curtail all activities beyond his academic field. Morrison agreed to do so in 1954. Nonetheless, he was one of the few ex-communists to remain employed and academically active throughout the 1950s.In 1999, writer alleged that Morrison had been the Soviet spy, a charge that Morrison strongly and credibly rebutted. Stone accepted his rebuttal.

Academic work. Pulse of from the as constructed from photons detected by Fermi's Large Area TelescopeMorrison co-wrote a paper with in 1940 in which they calculated the emitted by the process of. Initially at Cornell after the war, Morrison continued working in nuclear physics, collaborating with Bethe on a textbook, Elementary Nuclear Physics (1952), one of the early treatments of the relatively new field.Following his political stances, Morrison's attention began drifting towards the stars. In 1954, he published a paper with and Stanislaw Olbert in which they explored 's theory of how travel through the galaxy. Morrison followed this up with a review of theories of the origins of cosmic rays in 1957.

A 1958 paper in is considered to mark the birth of.In collaboration with, Morrison published a paper in 1959 proposing the potential of in the search for, a component of the modern program. This was one of the first proposals for detecting extraterrestrial intelligence. He conceded that 'The probability of success is difficult to estimate, butif we never search, the chance of success is zero.' Morrison remained at Cornell until 1964, when he went to the (MIT). He remained there for the remainder of his career, becoming Institute Professor in 1976, and Institute Professor Emeritus in 1986. In 1963, working in collaboration with a student of his, James Felten, Morrison had investigated the effect of, an important source of cosmic x-rays and gamma rays.

At MIT, Morrison teamed up with Bruno Rossi's x-ray group there, and also with 's group at nearby. Morrison became deeply involved in the exploration of the cosmos through its x-ray and gamma ray emissions. In a 1960 paper, he noted the similarities between. He returned to this in 1976, applying his model to the. Media work. Morrison is one of those discussing the likelihood of in (1973), an documentary film byMorrison was known for his numerous books and television programs. He produced 68 articles between 1949 and 1976, ten in issues of.

He provided the narration and script for in 1977. With his wife, Phylis, they turned the same material into a in 1982. He also appeared as himself in the science documentary film Target.Earth? In 1987, aired his six part, The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What We Know, which he also hosted. In addition, he was a columnist and reviewer of books on science for starting in 1965.In later life he was a critic of the. He authored or co-authored a number of books critical of the and the, including Winding Down: The Price of Defense (1979), The Nuclear Almanac (1984), Reason Enough to Hope (1998) Beyond the Looking Glass (1993). Recognition Morrison was a fellow of the, and chairman of the from 1973 to 1976.

He was also a member of the, the, the, the and the.Over his lifetime, Morrison received numerous honors and awards. He delivered the 1968 on Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small, and the 1982 before the. He was awarded the Presidential Award and Pregel Prize of the, the Babson Prize of the Gravity Foundation, the 's Westinghouse Science Writing Award, the 's, the Priestly Medallion, Minnesota Museum of Science Public Science Medal, the 's, the 's, the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. And, with his wife Phylis, the Wheeler Prize by the. Death Morrison died in his sleep of a respiratory failure at his home in, on April 22, 2005.

He was survived by his stepson Bert Singer. Bibliography.; Morrison, Philip (1952).

Elementary Nuclear Theory. New York: Wiley. Charles Babbage (with Emily Morrison) (1956). My Father’s Watch (with Donald Holcomb (Prentice Hall, 1974). Morrison, Philip; Morrison, Phylis (1982).

Powers of Ten: a book about the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. Redding, Connecticut: Scientific American Library. The Ring of Truth (with Phylis Morrison) (Random House, 1987). Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True (A Faraday dictum) (American Institute of Physics, 1994). Winding Down: The Price of Defense (Times Books, 1979). The Nuclear Almanac (Addison Wesley, 1984).

Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature: His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Science Books ( Freeman, 1990). Reason Enough to Hope (MIT Press, 1998). Beyond the Looking Glass (1993)Notes. ^, p. 3. ^. August 13, 1945.

Retrieved February 8, 2014. April 27, 2005. Retrieved February 8, 2014. Sartori, Leo; Tsipis, Kosta (March 2006). 'Obituary: Philip Morrison'. Physics Today.

59 (3): 83–85. ^. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Retrieved February 8, 2014. ^, p. 4. Archived from on October 28, 2016. ^, p. 5.

Retrieved February 8, 2014. ^, p. 6. Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Retrieved February 8, 2014. ^, p. 7. ^ Overbye, Dennis (April 26, 2005). Retrieved February 8, 2014. ^, p. 9. Retrieved February 8, 2014.

^, pp. 11-12. Goodwin, Irwin (July 1999).

'New Book Unmasks Scientist X as Spy, But Facts of Case Tell a Different Story'. Physics Today. 52 (7): 39–40.

The New York Times. May 14, 1999. Retrieved March 31, 2014.; Schiff, L. 'Radiative K Capture'. American Physical Society. 58 (1): 24–26.

^, p. 13. Morrison, Philip; Olbert, Stanislaw; (April 1954). 'The Origin of Cosmic Rays'. American Physical Society. 94 (2): 440–453. Morrison, P.

(April 1957). 'On the Origins of Cosmic Rays'.

American Physical Society. 29 (2): 235–243. Morrison, Philip (March 16, 1958). 'On gamma-ray astronomy'. 7 (6): 858–865. Cocconi, Giuseppi & Morrison, Philip (September 19, 1959). 184 (4690): 844–846.

'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights' by 'Freddy Fender' from the album 'Wasted days and wasted nights' released in 1975. In 1959, Fender recorded the blues ballad 'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights.' The song became popular in 1959, but he was beset by legal troubles after he and a read more. 'Wasted Days and Wasted Nights' is an American country and pop song recorded by Freddy Fender. It is considered by many to belong to the swamp pop idiom of south Louisiana and southeast Texas that had such a major musical impact on Fender. Wasted Days & Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender Reyes Oldies. Unsubscribe from Reyes Oldies? Cancel Unsubscribe. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 348K. About “Wasted Days And Wasted Nights” Written in 1959 but not released until 1974, the song almost didn’t make it to the airwaves because of Fender’s trouble with the law in Texas. Wasted days and wasted nights.

Retrieved May 3, 2008. ^ Thomson, Elizabeth A.

(April 27, 2005). Retrieved February 8, 2014.

Array of Contemporary American Physicists. Archived from on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014. Felten, J.

E.; Morrison, P. 'Recoil Photons from Scattering of Starlight by Relativistic Electrons'. American Physical Society. 10 (10): 453–457.

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Paul (April 25, 2005). The SETI League. Retrieved February 8, 2014.

Retrieved February 8, 2014. Morrison, Philip; Tsipis, Kosta; (February 1994). 'The Future of American Defense'. 270 (2): 20–27., p. 12., p. 17. Retrieved February 8, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2014.References.

Sartori, Leo; Tsipis, Losta (2009). Biographical Memoirs. Retrieved February 8, 2013.External links Wikiquote has quotations related to:. Infinite History.

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