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Joseph Morgan Lecture

Joseph Morgan (1909-1994), who spent most of his academic career at TCU, was a major influence on the development of the Department of Physics and the furtherance of science at the University. He is remembered with fondness and respect by colleagues who served with him on the faculty and by the many undergraduate and graduate students who learned physics from him.

Born in Kiev Russia, Morgan came to the United States at an early age to settle in Philadelphia where he received his early education. After earning the A.B. in 1931 and M.A. in 1933 from Temple University, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the Ph.D. in physics in 1937. Coming to TCU as assistant professor in 1941, he rose to full professor in 1945. He served as director of the Engineering Program (1951), chairman of the Science Division (1953-55), chairman of the Department of Physics (1958-69), and vice-president of the TCU Research Foundation (1969-78). Dr. Morgan was a Fellow of the American Physical Society and selected Professor of the Year in 1960. He was the author of numerous articles and six textbooks. A student of the violin from an early age when he played in a junior orchestra under famed Philadelphia Orchestra conductor, Arthur Rodzinski, he had a lifelong passion for music.

As a principal architect of the physics department, during his tenure as professor and chairman, and a strong supporter of graduate studies at the University while vice-president of the TCU Research Foundation, Joseph Morgan made significant contributions to the development and growth of research at the University. The Joseph Morgan Lecture series inaugurated in 1995 is intended to reflect his broad interests in scholarly activities and his particular delight in research seminars.

Joseph Morgan Lecturers

2006-07	Dr. Yury Gogotsi	Drexel University
2005-06	Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich	The Neurosciences Institute
2004-05	Dr. Phil Plait	Sonoma State University
2003-04	Dr. Edward W. Kolb	University of Chicago
2002-03	Dr. J. Craig Wheeler	University of Texas at Austin
2001-02	Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss	Case Western University
2000-01	Dr. Robert B. Von Dreele	Los Alamos National Laboratory
1999-00	Dr. Harry L. Swinney	University of Texas at Austin
1998-99	Dr. Robert F. Curl	Rice University
1997-98	Dr. Marlan Scully	Texas A&M University
1996-97	Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joseph Morgan Physics Scholarship

The award was established in 1994 by Charles Weiner in Memory of Dr. Joseph Morgan. The fund is to benefit juniors and seniors who are majoring in physics and have shown academic excellence.

2006-07	Tess Bernard
2005-06	John Rhoads
2004-05	Michelle Prewitt
2003-04	Thomas Doran
2002-03	Jason Deffenbaugh
2001-02	Joshua Thaden
2000-01	Andrew Luers
1996-97	Kristi Eggleston