Philip M. Morse

Philip McCord Morse
Born(1903-08-06)August 6, 1903
DiedSeptember 5, 1985(1985-09-05) (aged 82)
EducationCase School of Engineering (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known forMorse potential
Rosen–Morse potential
AwardsASA Gold Medal (1973)
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1968)
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1947)
Medal for Merit (1946)
Scientific career
InstitutionsLudwig Maximilian University of Munich
Cambridge University
MIT
ThesisA Theory of the Electric Discharge through Gases (1929)
Doctoral advisorKarl Taylor Compton
Doctoral studentsCharles 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.

  1. ^ Feshbach, Herman (February 1986). "Obituary: Philip M. Morse". Physics Today. 39 (2): 89–90. Bibcode:1986PhT....39b..89F. doi:10.1063/1.2814908.