Norman Morrison

Norman Morrison was born in Dewetsdorp, South Africa. He received a dual-discipline PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio in 1963, after which he worked at Bell Labs Ballstic Missile Defence in Whippany, New Jersey. He later served as Chief Scientist for the Harris Corporation in Cleveland, and in his last post in the USA, before returning to South Africa, he was Vice-President Technology at Knight-Ridder Communications in Miami, Florida. In South Africa he taught applied mathematics at the University of Cape Town for twenty years. He is currently employed by the South African Department of Defence, working on the development of advanced radar systems.