Morris Cohen (Metallurgist)

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Morris Cohen (born November 27, 1911 in Chelsea (Massachusetts) , † May 27, 2005 in Swampscott ) was an American metallurgist and materials scientist, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Cohen took an interest in metallurgy as a teenager - his family made lead-based alloys for letterpress and solder. He studied at MIT with a bachelor's degree in 1933 and a doctorate in 1936. From 1937 he was assistant professor and from 1946 professor of metallurgy at MIT. In 1975 he became an institute professor there (the highest honor of MIT) and in 1982 he retired.

In the Manhattan Project he developed the fuel rods for the first nuclear reactor in Chicago (headed by Enrico Fermi ). He made important contributions to the metallurgy of iron and steel.

Awards

He received several honorary doctorates and after his first visit to China in 1980 he was an honorary professor at the University of Science and Technology in Beijing and the Beijing Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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