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Philip Morrison

Physics

#141

World Rank

#282

Historical Rank

#74

USA Rank

Astrophysics

#33

World Rank

#34

Historical Rank

#12

USA Rank

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Philip Morrison's Degrees

PhD Physics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Philip Morrison was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 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.

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Experimental Nuclear Physics (1953) (651)
Searching for Interstellar Communications (1959) (431)
The Leibniz‐Clarke Correspondence (1957) (221)
RADIOGENIC ORIGIN OF THE HELIUM ISOTOPES IN ROCK (1955) (194)
OMNIDIRECTIONAL INVERSE COMPTON AND SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FROM COSMIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF FAST ELECTRONS AND THERMAL PHOTONS. (1966) (162)
Solar Origin of Cosmic-Ray Time Variations (1956) (156)
On gamma-ray astronomy (1958) (125)
The cosmic ray flare effect (1958) (116)
Approximate Nature of Physical Symmetries (1958) (78)
Energy levels of light nuclei. III (1950) (68)
Are quasi-stellar radio sources giant pulsars? (1969) (61)
Neutrino Emission from Black-Body Radiation at High Stellar Temperatures (1960) (54)
The PHENIX experiment at RHIC (1998) (54)
The Origin of Cosmic Rays (1954) (47)
On Quasar Evolution (1971) (46)
Radiative K Capture (1940) (46)
Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines (1961) (45)
LEAKAGE ELECTRONS FROM NORMAL GALAXIES: THE DIFFUSE COSMIC X-RAY SOURCE. (1969) (44)
Recoil Photons from Scattering of Starlight by Relativistic Electrons (1963) (43)
Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1982) (35)
A Thermodynamic Characterization of Self-Reproduction (1964) (35)
Extreme nonthermal radiation from active galactic nuclei (1980) (34)
Niels Bohr and the Development of Physics: Essays Dedicated to Niels Bohr on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (1956) (33)
The Place of Science in Modem Civilization (1957) (30)
Powers of ten : a book about the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero (1982) (29)
Charles Babbage and His Calculating Engines: Selected Writings by Charles Babbage and Others (1962) (29)
The Calculation of Internal Conversion Coefficients (1939) (28)
The light of the supernova outburst (1969) (27)
The development of the concept of electric charge : electricity from the Greeks to Coulomb (1955) (25)
Cosmology, black-body radiation, and the diffuse X-ray background. (1967) (25)
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2001) (24)
Rapidly Changing Radio Images (1971) (23)
Less May Be More (1964) (22)
A New Strategy for Military Spending (1978) (21)
Thermal X-rays from non-thermal radio sources. (1967) (21)
M82 sans explosion: a galaxy drifts through dust. Or, can a simple field galaxy find stardust in the M81 group? (1977) (20)
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence—SETI (1977) (19)
Experimental nuclear physics /E. Segrè, editor (1953) (19)
The Measurement of Regional Growth and Wellbeing (2014) (16)
Carbonaceous "Snowflakes" and the Origin of Life (1962) (15)
Is there a ring around the Sun? (1979) (15)
Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True (1997) (14)
On the Origins of Cosmic Rays (1957) (13)
Nuclear geology : a symposium on nuclear phenomena in the earth sciences (1955) (13)
The Ring of Truth (1993) (12)
Cosmic gamma-ray bursts from directed stellar flares (1974) (12)
Rapidly rotating degenerate dwarfs as x-ray sources in binaries (1973) (12)
Extrasolar X-Ray Sources (1967) (12)
Symmetry Parameters for Double Radio Sources (1975) (12)
A model for the radiations from the compact strong sources (1970) (11)
Book Review: Astronomy in Myth: Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon (2001) (11)
INTERPRETATION OF THE DECAY SCHEME OF K$sup 4$$sup 0$ (1951) (11)
On transient thermal X-ray emission from novae (1977) (11)
Hercules A (3C 348): Phenomenology of an Unusual Active Galactic Nucleus (2002) (9)
The Overthrow of Parity (1957) (9)
X-Ray Emission from Remnants of Type-I Supernovas (1965) (9)
The radio rings of Hercules A (1988) (8)
The two-stage origin of bright rings in extended radio lobes (1996) (8)
Can the size of distant sources be inferred from luminosity changes (1968) (8)
Gas Dynamics of Cosmic Clouds (Symposium, Cambridge, England, 1953) (1956) (8)
Thermodynamics and the Origin of Life (1973) (8)
Search for the universal ancestors (1985) (8)
Fluorescent origin of the light from a supernova outburst. (1966) (8)
Early Tales of the Atomic Age (1948) (7)
Review: Books: the First Americans: Origins, Affinities, and Adaptations, Edited By William S. Laughlin and Albert B. Harper. Gustav Fischer, New York. PP. 340 (1980) (6)
A model for clusters of discrete gamma-ray sources (1978) (6)
Resolving the mystery of the quasars. (1973) (5)
The optical jet of 3C273: an electron–positron plasma beam viewed by the light of its quasar? (1992) (5)
Reflections on a decade of grade‐school science (1972) (5)
Scientific Papers Presented to Max Born. Sir Edward Appleton et al. Hafner, New York, 1953. 94 pp. Illus. $2.50 (1954) (5)
Physics in 1946 (1947) (5)
Her brilliant career (1995) (5)
X-ray bursters and dwarf novae - A correspondence (1977) (5)
Fossil STRÖMGREN Spheres from Supernova Explosions (1971) (5)
The life and death of cells (1957) (4)
The Wartime Activities of German Scientists (1948) (4)
The dipole sum rule with an approximate Hamiltonian (1957) (4)
The Strange Life of Charles Babbage (1952) (4)
COLLISIONAL DE-EXCITATION OF $mu$-MESONIC ATOMS (1957) (4)
Internal Scattering of Gamma-Rays (1940) (4)
A spinar model of Cygnus A. (1976) (4)
Introduction to the Theory of Nuclear Reactions (1941) (4)
Recollections of a Nuclear War (1995) (4)
Statistical Aspects of the Nucleus: Conference, Brookhaven National Laboratory, January 1955 (1956) (3)
Reprinted from Scientific American (1951) (3)
Ice That Sinks (1963) (3)
ALSOS: The Story of German Science (1947) (3)
The Laboratory Demobilizes (1946) (3)
A shadowed flow in the stem of the Crab nebula? (1985) (3)
The light of the supernova outburst. II. The case of supernova 1972e. (1975) (3)
The Primacy of Ideas: The Work of Harvey Franklin (1994) (2)
Doing the Poincaré Shuffle (1997) (2)
The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society; The Meaning of Relativity; Out of My Later Years and Albert Einstein: Philosopher‐Scientist (1950) (2)
Double Bass Redoubled (1998) (2)
SYMPOSIUM ON ASTRONOMICAL ASPECTS OF COSMIC RAYS (1960) (2)
Are there two types of quasars. (1973) (2)
Physics in 1947 (1948) (2)
Energy Fluctuations in the Electromagnetic Field (1939) (2)
Neutrino Emission and a Possible Model for Pre-White Dwarf Stars. (1962) (2)
The Innovation Industry (1959) (2)
The Discovery of Global Warming (2004) (1)
The Fact of Life (2004) (1)
The light of the supernova outburst. III - External excitation of the expanding gas shell (1978) (1)
Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy: Some Views on Blackett's Book (1949) (1)
Spinars - A Progress Report (1971) (1)
The Silicon Gourmet (1997) (1)
Numbers: Prime or Choice? (1998) (1)
Nationalism, science, and individual responsibility (1986) (1)
THE NEBULA: X-RAY DATA (1970) (1)
Oersted Medal Award Ceremony: 1965 (1965) (1)
The Story of Albert Einstein (1958) (1)
Laws of calorie counting. (2000) (1)
The Hidden Cosmic Ruckus (1999) (1)
Search for the universal ancestors : the origins of life (1987) (1)
Do cosmic rays heat HZ Herculis (1974) (1)
Symmetries and Civilizations (1996) (1)
The Timekeeping ELF (1998) (1)
The World of Science: Two Notes on the Meaning of Fusion (1956) (0)
The Spectrum of SN 1972e and the Fluorescence Theory of Supernova Light (1974) (0)
An appeal by American scientists to the governments and people of the world (1958) (0)
The World of Science: The Sputniki (1958) (0)
Reflections: The optical jet of 3C 273 (2008) (0)
Search for the universal ancestors / editors, H. Hartman, J.G. Lawless, P. Morrison. (1985) (0)
Beyond Atoms and the Void (1992) (0)
Viking, life, and a search for signals from the stars (1976) (0)
The World of Science: Automation (1958) (0)
A dust scattered halo in starburst galaxy M82 (1987) (0)
Astronomy and the Laws of Physics (1977) (0)
The World of Science: Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1962) (0)
Note on Internal Conversion of Arbitrary Multipole Order (1938) (0)
The Solar Zenith Transit in Ancient Astronomy (1978) (0)
World of Science: You Still Don't Know What Electricity Is, Anyway (1957) (0)
Colliding shells model. (1976) (0)
A spinar model of Cygnus A. [double radio cloud synchrotron emission] (1976) (0)
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear War. Papers Based on a Symposium of the Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society, (Washington, D.C., April 1982). (1983) (0)
Cosmic gamma ray bursts from stellar coronal streamers (1974) (0)
The World of Science: Kepler and Eniwetok (1958) (0)
Copernicus in His Prime (2003) (0)
Giant Loops as Fossil Str6mgren Spheres. Their Radio and X-Ray Emission (1973) (0)
The Nature of Transient X-ray Sources (1975) (0)
M82 Without an Explosion. (1974) (0)
The Number N of Advanced Civilizations in Our Galaxy and the Question of Galactic Colonization. An Introduction (1980) (0)
The light of the supernovae (1975) (0)
Twenty-Five Years of the Search for Extraterrestrial Communications (1985) (0)
The World Of Science: Spider Webs, Drugs, and the Nature of Man (1957) (0)
The World of Science: Towards the Synthesis of Life (1956) (0)
The World of Science: The Chalk and Its Boulders (1961) (0)
Half a World…and None: Partial World Government Criticized (1947) (0)
Fluorescence Theory of Supernova Light (1969) (0)
Open or Closed (1974) (0)
THERMAL X RAYS AND RADIO SOURCES: EXPLOSION AFTERMATH. (1968) (0)
Three Cosmolgical Remarks (1996) (0)
LETTERS: Something Old, Something New... (1972) (0)
Great Books and City Crops (1996) (0)
Netting the deep sky. (2000) (0)
The warrior from Harvard (1993) (0)
Matters of the Heart (1993) (0)
Non-Technical Papers: Reflections of a Physicist (1951) (0)
HEAVEN AND EARTH ONE SUBSTANCE : BERNARD PETERS AND THE HEAVY PRIMARIES (1991) (0)
The nuclear plateau (1982) (0)
Book reviews (1978) (0)
Was light faster in the past (2003) (0)
The Taste for Speculation (1966) (0)
6 – Two Kinds of Light From Science (1980) (0)
II “Science is Essentially Social” (1951) (0)
Electricity and Magnetism: Preface to the Berkeley Physics Course (2011) (0)
1997: Subatomic Centenary (1997) (0)
Where Fiction Became Ancient Fact (1998) (0)
Pictures of galaxies (1983) (0)
HOH and Life Elsewhere (1997) (0)
Human Issues in Space Exploration (1980) (0)
Insight and Taste (1963) (0)
The needy porcupine. (2001) (0)
The Fabric of the Atom—an Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (1968) (0)
Giant against Giant in the Dark (1996) (0)
Two Dials: A tale of heartbeat and earthspin (1981) (0)
Symmetry and Symmetry-Breaking in South Africa (1996) (0)
Dissonance in the Heavens (1976) (0)
On Neutrino Astronomy (1995) (0)
The Star Mapper (1998) (0)
New World and Old: A Matter of Magnitude (1996) (0)
Natural history of a virus. (1949) (0)
Book-Review - Powers of Ten (1985) (0)
Collected Papers (Note e Memorie) Vol. I (1963) (0)
Geometrical Mechanics and De Broglie Waves . J. L. Synge. Part of Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. G. K. Batchelor and H. Bondi, Eds. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1954. vi + 167 pp. Illus. $4.75 (1954) (0)
Head Start on the 20th Century (1996) (0)
Scattering Models for the X-ray Halo In M82 (1986) (0)
The Bell Shaped Pitfall. (1975) (0)
Atomic Energy. A Survey (1955) (0)
Gleaning nuggets. (2000) (0)
Statistical Aspects of the Nucleus (1955) (0)
A Tour of Geological Spacetime (2004) (0)
Tales behind the tags (2001) (0)
The World of Science: Science and Economic Development: A Review (1957) (0)
The World of Science: The Immensity of Space: a Note on the Interpenetration of Theory and Experiment (1961) (0)
51. Bioastronomy - Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Bioastronomie - Recherche De La Vie Dans L’univers (1988) (0)
The World of Science: On Being Weightless (1958) (0)
DIFFUSE RADIATION IN THE HIGH-ENERGY REGION. (1970) (0)

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