Peter Reed Morrison

Peter Reed Morrison (11 November 1919, Washington, DC – 22 March 2019) was a professor of animal physiology and a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1954–1955.

Early life Morrison graduated in 1940 with a B.S. from Swarthmore College and graduated in 1947 with a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He became a physiology and biology professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Peter was also a professor of zoophysiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from 1963 to 1974. Since then, he retired as professor emeritus.

Selected publications

Patents Ferry, J.D. and Morrison, P.R., 1950. Fibrin clots and methods for preparing the same. U.S. Patent 2,533,004. Ferry, J.D. and Morrison, P.R., Research Corp, 1951. Methods of forming shaped fibrin products. U.S. Patent 2,576,006.