Honors
Awards and honors
- Bruce Medal (1958)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1961)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1964)
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1980)
- Herschel Medal (1983)
Named after him
- Asteroid 3180 Morgan
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“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
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Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
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Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
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