Morgan, Karl

▪ 2000

      American physicist who worked as a senior scientist on the Manhattan Project in 1943 and served as director of health physics at the Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory (1944–72); despite his position in the nuclear establishment, he warned about the dangers of nuclear radiation, testifying in several cases in the 1970s and '80s on behalf of those claiming to have suffered from radiation exposure; his autobiography, The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age, appeared in 1999 (b. Sept. 27, 1907, Enochsville, N.C.—d. June 8, 1999, Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

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