Philip Morrison

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American scientist educator human physicist

Philip Morrison was an American physicist and educator known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for helping launch the modern scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American scientist → educator → human → physicist →
advocatedFor	nuclear arms control → peaceful uses of nuclear energy →
authorOf	seminal 1959 SETI paper in Nature →
awardReceived	Oersted Medal → Priestley Medal of the American Chemical Society →
coAuthor	Giuseppe Cocconi →
contributedTo	development of the first atomic bombs →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1915-11-07 →
dateOfDeath	2005-04-22 →
educatedAt	Carnegie Institute of Technology → University of California, Berkeley →
employer	Cornell University → Los Alamos Laboratory → Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
familyName	Morrison →
fieldOfWork	astrophysics → nuclear physics → physics → science education →
genre	popular science →
givenName	Philip →
influenced	development of scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence →
knownFor	helping launch modern SETI → popularization of science → work on the Manhattan Project →
languageSpoken	English →
memberOf	Manhattan Project →
notableStudent	Freeman Dyson →
notableWork	Manhattan Project → Scientific American book reviews → early SETI research → “Man in Space” television series → “The Ring of Truth” television series →
occupation	physicist → science communicator → university professor →
participatedIn	World War II →
placeOfBirth	Somerville, New Jersey, United States →
placeOfDeath	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →
politicalAlignment	left-wing →
residence	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States →
reviewerFor	Scientific American →
spouse	Phylis Morrison →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Giuseppe Cocconi →	coAuthor
SETI →	pioneeredBy