Morrison, Philip
The worlds of Philip Morrison [video and audio recording], 1986.
Sounds and video recordings of the symposium held on September 26 and 27, 1986, honoring Philip Morrison on his 70th birthday. Audio recordings are available for both days of the symposium but video is only available for the second day. Speakers on September 26 include: Gene M. Brown, Bruno Rossi, James Peebles, Walter Lewin, Kenneth Brecher, Alan Guth, Francis Low, Jerome Wiesner, Randall Forsberg, Anthony P. French, Lillian Weber, Owen Gingerich, and Tom Gold. Speakers on September 27 include Victor Weisskopf, Carl Sagan, Hans Bethe, and Philip Morrison. Topics include astrophysics, nuclear disarmament, and the career of Philip Morrison.
American physicist (1915-20085). Ph.D., theoretical physics (University of California at Berkeley, 1940). University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, 1943; group leader, Los Alamos Laboratory (1944-1946); faculty, Cornell University (1946-1964); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor (1965- ). Morrison actively opposed development of nuclear weapons and was a proponent of physics and higher education worldwide. Research in theoretical physics, astrophysics, cosmology, interstellar communications, and the origins of life.
Morrison, Philip
Astrophysics
Nuclear disarmament.
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
Brecher, Kenneth.
Brown, Gene M.
Forsberg, Randall
French, A. P. (Anthony Philip), 1920-
Gingerich, Owen.
Gold, Thomas
Guth, Alan H.
Lewin, Walter H. G.
Low, Francis E. (Francis Eugene), 1921-2007
Peebles, P. J. E. (Phillip James Edwin)
Rossi, Bruno Benedetto, 1905-
Sagan, Carl, 1934-1996
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick, 1908-2002
Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994
AIP-ICOS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections. M.I.T. Libraries, Rm. 14N-118, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA