Philip Morrison

Date of birth : 11/07/1915

Date of death : 04/22/2005

City of birth : Somerville, New Jersey, USA

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.