Cornell University. Board of Trustees
Cornell University Board of Trustees Committee of Inquiry Concerning the Activities of Professor Philip Morrison records, 1950-1956.
Collection includes correspondence, memoranda, transcript of a hearing, minutes, report, and other materials of the Trustee Committee of Inquiry Concerning the Activities of Professor Philip Morrison relating to Morrison's fitness for tenure. Topics include faculty involvement in subversive organizations, communism, McCarthyism, and freedom of speech.
American physicist (1915-2005). 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
Cornell University. Board of Trustees
Communism
Anti-communist movements -- United States.
AIP-ICOS
Cornell University. Carl A. Kroch Library. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. 2B Carl A Kroch Library, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA