SETI Pioneer Philip Morrison, Physicist Dies

Philip Morrison, 89;
Physicist Built Bomb, Sought Peace

By Thomas H. Maugh II
Times Staff Writer
LA Times
4-26-05

      Philip Morrison, one of the youngest physicists to work on the Manhattan Project and a leading voice in post-World War II efforts to contain the bomb, has died. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus, who was also one of the godfathers of the search for extraterrestrial life, was 89.

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