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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