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== Death == Morrison died in his sleep of a respiratory failure at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 22, 2005. He was survived by his stepson Bert Singer.
== In popular culture == In the 2023 film Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, Morrison was portrayed by actor Harrison Gilbertson.
== Bibliography == Bethe, Hans A.; Morrison, Philip (1952). Elementary Nuclear Theory. New York: Wiley. Charles Babbage (with Emily Morrison) (1956) My Father’s Watch (with Donald Holcomb (Prentice Hall, 1974) Morrison, Philip; Morrison, Phylis (1982). Powers of Ten: a book about the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. Redding, Connecticut: Scientific American Library. Bibcode:1982ptba.book.....M. The Ring of Truth (with Phylis Morrison) (Random House, 1987) Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True (A Faraday dictum) (American Institute of Physics, 1994) Winding Down: The Price of Defense (Times Books, 1979) The Nuclear Almanac (Addison Wesley, 1984) Philip Morrison's Long Look at the Literature: His Reviews of a Hundred Memorable Science Books (ISBN 0-7167-2107-4 Freeman, 1990) Reason Enough to Hope (MIT Press, 1998) Beyond the Looking Glass (1993)
== Notes ==
== References == Sartori, Leo; Tsipis, Kosta (2009). Philip Morrison 1915–2005 (PDF). Biographical Memoirs. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved February 8, 2013.
== External links ==
"13th Killian Award Lecture—Philip Morrison (1985): Looking at astronomy through Philip Morrison's perspective". Infinite History. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved January 31, 2017. "Interview with Philip Morrison". War and Peace in the Nuclear Age. WGBH. 1986. Retrieved March 22, 2016.