Morrison, Philip

Morrison, Philip
▪ 2006

      American physicist (b. Nov. 7, 1915, Somerville, N.J.—d. April 22, 2005, Cambridge, Mass.), carried the plutonium core of the first atomic bomb on his lap as it was driven to the Trinity test sight in Alamogordo, N.M., in 1945. A protégé of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Morrison joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 and helped build the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. After witnessing the devastation of the bomb, he became an advocate for arms control. He collaborated with Ray and Charles Eames on the film Powers of Ten (1977) and was host of the PBS television series The Ring of Truth (1987).

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