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.