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Bomb builder turned critic passes away Philip Morrison, one of a generation of physicists who built the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, only to spend the rest of their careers campaigning against nuclear weapons, has died at the age of 89. Morrison spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was appointed Institute Professor, the highest honour awarded by MIT, in 1973.
Born in New Jersey in 1915, Morrison caught polio as a child which left him partly handicapped for the rest of his life.
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