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12. Philip McCord Morse
12. Philip McCord Morse
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The high regard in which he was held is indicated by his election to the presidency of the American Physical Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the Operations Research Society of America. He was awarded the U.S.
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and then actively secured its use throughout the world. He founclec3 and was the first president of the Operations Research Society.
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In 1932 he wrote a fifty-seven-page article in the Review of Modern Physics, entitled "Quantum Mechanics of Collision Processes." On his return to the United States in 1931, Morse joined the MIT Physics Department.
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Except for his papers on the "Opacity of Gas Mixtures in Steller Interiors" published in 1940, and "Excitation of Molecular Rotation- Vibrations by Electron Impact" in 1953, these were his last papers in which quantum mechanics plays an important role. As part of the renaissance of the MIT Physics Department, Morse taught two new courses.
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At the beginning he was director of the MIT Underwater Sound Project (1940-42) , which hacI as its main goal the clevelopment of a noisemaker that couch mimic the sound of a ship well enough to fool an acoustic mine.
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. Morse's return to MTT after his war service lasted a very short while, for he soon accepted the position as the first director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory established by a consortium of leading eastern research universities.
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Eventually, the Computation Center cleveloped a time sharing system. One should also mention Morse's initiative which resulted in the publication of the extraordinarily useful volume published in 1964, The Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs and Mathematical Talks.
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He was especially concerned for the human condition, as evidenced by his chairmanship of the American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs. Under his leadership, the panel not only sponsored important studies at the intersection of physics and public policy but also devoted considerable effort in behalf of physicists oppressed by totalitarian regimes.
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Presidential Medal for Merit 1946-48 Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory 1949-50 Deputy Director and Director of Research, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group 1950-65 Graduate Registration Officer, Department of Physics, 1950 1952-69 1952-53 1953-67 1954-65 MIT President, Acoustical Society of America Chairman, Operations Research Committee, MIT President, Operations Research Society of America Chairman, Computation Committee, MIT Chairman, NRC Committee on Revision of Mathemati cal Tables 1955 Elected to National Academy of Sciences 1955-69 Chairman, Committee of Institutional Representatives to the MIT Computation Center 1956-76 Editor, Annals of Physics, Academic Press, New York 1956-69 Director, Operations Research Center, MIT
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anc . Technology for International Relations 1974 Awarded Kimball Medal by the Operations Research So ciety of America 1975 Chairman, Governing Board, American Institute of Physics 1975-76 Chairman, Panel on Public Affairs, American Physical Society
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Tables for determining atomic wave functions and energies.
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Acoustical analysis of the pressure waves accompanying detonation in the internal combusion engine. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, p.
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New York: McGraw-Hill. 1977 255 Exact solution for the Bradford distribution and its use in modeling international data.
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