his lifetime, Morrison received numerous honors and awards. He delivered the 1968 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on Gulliver's Laws: The Physics of Large and Small, and the 1982 Jansky Lectureship before the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He was awarded the Presidential Award and Pregel Prize of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Babson Prize of the Gravity Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Westinghouse Science Writing Award, the American Association of Physics Teachers's Oersted Medal, the Dickinson College Priestly Medallion, Minnesota Museum of Science Public Science Medal, the American Institute of Physics's Andrew Gemant Award, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Klumpke-Roberts Award, the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. and, with his wife Phylis, the Walker Prize by the Boston Museum of Science. 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. Bibliography Charles Babbage (with Emily Morrison) (1956) My Father’s Watch (with Donald Holcomb (Prentice Hall, 1974) 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 ( Freeman, 1990) Reason Enough to Hope (MIT Press, 1998) Beyond the Looking Glass (1993) Notes References External links 1915 births 2005 deaths Carnegie Mellon University alumni MIT Center for Theoretical Physics faculty Cornell University faculty Manhattan Project people Scientists from Pittsburgh Search for extraterrestrial intelligence Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences University of California alumni 20th-century American physicists Fellows of the American Physical Society Articles containing video clips