Back فيليب إم. مورس Arabic فيليب ام. مورس ARZ فیلیپ ام مورس AZB Philip M. Morse German Philip M. Morse Spanish فیلیپ ام. مورس FA Philip M. Morse French Philip M. Morse Italian Philip McCord Morse Dutch Philip McCord Morse Portuguese
Philip McCord Morse | |
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| Born | August 6, 1903 Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | September 5, 1985 (aged 82) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | Case School of Engineering (BS) Princeton University (PhD) |
| Known for | Morse potential Rosen–Morse potential |
| Awards | ASA Gold Medal (1973) Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1968) Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1947) Medal for Merit (1946) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Cambridge University MIT |
| Thesis | A Theory of the Electric Discharge through Gases (1929) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Taylor Compton |
| Doctoral students | Charles Draper Ronald A. Howard John Little Leonard Schiff |
Philip McCord Morse (August 6, 1903 – 5 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II.[1] He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S.
- ^ Feshbach, Herman (February 1986). "Obituary: Philip M. Morse". Physics Today. 39 (2): 89–90. Bibcode:1986PhT....39b..89F. doi:10.1063/1.2814908.