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Philip

McCord Morse (August 6,

1903 – 5 September 1985), was an American physicist, administrator and

pioneer of operations research (OR)

in World War II. He is

considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. Morse graduated

from the Case School of Applied

Science in 1926 with a B.S. in physics. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University in

1929. In 1930, he was granted an International

Fellowship, which he used to do postgraduate study and research at the Ludwig

Maximilian University of Munich under Arnold Sommerfeld during the winter of 1930 to the spring

of 1931. From the spring through the summer of 1931, he was at Cambridge University. Upon

return to the United States, he joined the faculty of MIT.

In 1949 he was named the first Research Director of the Weapons Systems Evaluation

Group (WSEG), an organization founded to conduct studies for

the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

where he served a year and a half before returning to MIT in the summer of

1950. In 1956 he launched MIT’s Operations Research Center,

directing it until 1968, and awarding the first Ph.D. in OR in the U.S.

to John Little. He was a

member of a National Research Council committee dedicated to bringing

OR into civilian life, and was a prime mover behind the creation of the Operations

Research Society of America (ORSA) in 1952. He served as

president of the American Physical Society,

president of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), and board chair of

the American Institute of

Physics. In 1946, he was a recipient of the Medal for Merit from the U.S. President for

his work during the war. In 1973 the ASA awarded him the Gold Medal, its highest award, for his work on vibration. Philip Morse made many contributions to the

development of operations research (OR). Early in 1942 he organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (ASWORG),

later ORG, for the U.S. Navy, after the US had entered World

War II and was faced with the problem of Nazi German U-boat attacks on transatlantic shipping. "That Morse’s group was an

important factor in winning the war is fairly obvious to everyone who knows

anything about the inside of the war," wrote historian John Burchard. Philip

Morse co-authored Methods of Operations Research, the first OR

textbook in the U.S., with George E.

Kimball based on the Navy work. His further writings include

the influential books Queues, Inventories, and He received ORSA's Lanchester Prize in 1968 for the latter

book. Philip Morse gave the opening address at the 1957 organizing meeting of

the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). In 1959

he chaired the first NATO advisory panel on OR. Philip

Morse had a distinguished career in physics. Amongst his contributions to physics are the

textbooks Quantum Mechanics (with Edward Condon), Methods of Theoretical Physics (with Herman Feshbach), Vibration and Sound, Theoretical

Acoustics, and Thermal Physics. Morse is also one of the

founding editors of Annals of Physics. In 1929 he proposed the Morse potential function for diatomic molecules which was

often used to interpret vibrational spectra, though the standard is now the

more modern Morse/Long-range potential.