Educated at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Philip
Morrison was present at the birth of the A-bomb. He went on to teach at
Cornell and MIT. In the late 50s, he first proposed using microwaves as
a way to communicate with aliens. He was a founder of the Planetary
Society and SETI and received many technical awards.
Was one of the youngest physicists to work on the Manhattan Project and
a leading voice in post-World War II efforts to stop the use of nuclear
weapons. He was also an advocate in the search for extraterrestrial
life.