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Nome de batismo: Morrison, Philip
Data de nascimento: 1915-11-07
Data de falecimento: 2005-04-22
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Local de nascimento: Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Local de falecimento: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Locais de residência: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Educação: Carnegie Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley (PhD|Theoretical Physics|1940)
Ocupação: astrophysicist
Relacionamentos: Morrison, Phylis (spouse and collaborator)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert (doctoral advisor)
Organizações: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Manhattan Project
San Francisco State College
University of Illinois
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cornell University (mostrar todas 12)
Federation of American Scientists
Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
American Physical Society
International Astronomical Union
American Association of Physics Teachers
American Philosophical Society
Premiações: Oersted Medal (1965)
Andrew Gemant Award (1987)
Klumpke-Roberts Award (1992)
John P. McGovern Science and Society Award
William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement
Minnesota Museum of Science Public Science Medal (mostrar todas 8)
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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The Ring of Truth : An Inquiry Into How We Know What… de Philip Morrison

Easy to understand exploration of how we know the things we know. How have we come to understand the world around us. Full of illustrations, and stories.

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nx74defiant | 1 outra resenha | Feb 4, 2023 |

The Ring of Truth: An Inquiry into How We Know What… de Philip Morrison

Really perceptive, intriguing book. Companion to the TV series.

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themulhern | 1 outra resenha | Oct 23, 2021 |

Powers of Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of… de Philip Morrison

This is the greatest science book ever made. It is better than its accompanying video. The book is so concise, yet it includes so much richness, so much research, and so much visual information. Symbolic representation of science is a necessity, but nothing brings it all together like this book. It's an exponential journey through space, connecting the Milky Way to the Carbon-12 atom of DNA of a cell in the hand of a person, a citizen. Copernicus would've wept.

For a museum experience of these ideas, the Hayden Planetarium provides a similar adventure into size and scale.

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danrk | outras 8 resenhas | Aug 28, 2021 |

Powers of ten : a book about the relative size of… de Philip Morrison

A classic! I have used this material (and related YouTube videos) when teaching chemistry for years.

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hcubic | outras 8 resenhas | Aug 6, 2017 |

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