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Morphotropic phase boundary
A morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) is a region in a solid solution's phase diagram where two crystallographic phases of different symmetry coexist, and where electromechanical response is maximal.
Morpion Solitaire
Morpion Solitaire (Join Five) is a single-player pencil-and-paper game: from 36 dots in a cross, draw lines through five consecutive dots. Records: 5T 178, 5D 82; 4T 62 and 4D 35 proven optimal.
Morquio syndrome
Morquio syndrome (mucopolysaccharidosis type IV, Morquio-Brailsford disease) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder affecting the skeleton; type A stems from GALNS deficiency, type B from GLB1, treated with elosulfase alfa ERT.
Morra
Morra, also called Mora or micatio, is an ancient Mediterranean hand game: two players simultaneously show 0-5 fingers and call 2-10, scoring on the exact total; traced to Egypt's Beni Hasan tombs, played in Sardinia and Aragon.
Morrel H. Cohen
Morrel H. Cohen (born 1927) is an American condensed matter physicist known for the free-volume theory of the glass transition and a 1969 band model of amorphous semiconductors.
Morrigan Aensland
Morrigan Aensland (モリガン・アーンスランド) is Capcom's succubus protagonist of Darkstalkers (1994), daughter of Belial, wielder of Soul Fist and Darkness Illusion, and a crossover staple of Marvel vs. Capcom since 1999.
Morrigan Linea
Morrigan Linea is a 3,200-km linea, mapped as a northeast-trending ridge belt, on Venus at 54.5S, 311E in quadrangle V-61; IAU-approved in 1991 and named for a Celtic war goddess.
Morrill Land-Grant Acts
The Morrill Land-Grant Acts, including the Morrill Act of 1862 signed by Abraham Lincoln, donated federal land and money to endow public colleges teaching agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Morrill Tariff
The Morrill Tariff was a United States tariff act signed in March 1861 that raised import duties, reintroduced specific duties, and began 52 years of high-tariff protectionism.
Morrinsville
Morrinsville is a dairy-farming service town in the Matamata-Piako District, Waikato, New Zealand, on the Piako River. Founded on the Morrin brothers' 1874 Lockerbie estate, it is a former railway junction with about 9,300 residents.
Morris A. Copeland
Morris A. Copeland (1895–1989) was an American institutional economist at Cornell University whose 1952 moneyflows study shaped the Federal Reserve's flow of funds accounts; he led the American Economic Association in 1957.
Morris Arboretum
Morris Arboretum & Gardens is a 92-acre public garden and educational institution of the University of Pennsylvania in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, opened to the public in 1933.
Morris Brown
Morris J. Brown, born 1951, is a British clinical pharmacologist and endocrinologist, Professor of Endocrine Hypertension at Queen Mary University of London, known for work on primary aldosteronism.
Morris Canal
The Morris Canal was a 19th-century anthracite-coal canal across northern New Jersey, running from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Jersey City, and remembered for its inclined planes.
Morris Chang (张忠谋)
Morris Chang (張忠謀, born 1931, Ningbo) founded TSMC in 1987 as an ITRI–Philips joint venture, pioneering the pure-play foundry model after a 25-year Texas Instruments career; retired as chairman June 5, 2018.
Morris Chestnut
Morris Chestnut (born 1969, Cerritos, California) is an American actor and producer known for Ricky in Boyz n the Hood, Lance in The Best Man films, Rosewood, and CBS's Watson; two-time NAACP Image Award winner.
Morris Claiborne
Morris Claiborne (born 1990, Shreveport, LA) is a former NFL cornerback, 2011 Jim Thorpe Award winner at LSU, drafted sixth overall by Dallas in 2012; later Jets and Chiefs, 85 career games.
Morris Cohen (metallurgist)
Morris Cohen (1911–2005) was an American metallurgist at MIT who worked out the mechanisms by which steel is strengthened and helped establish materials science as a distinct field.
Morris County, New Jersey
Morris County, New Jersey: county in northern New Jersey, county seat Morristown, formed March 15, 1739 from Hunterdon County and named for Royal Governor Lewis Morris; 509,285 residents (2020), 39 municipalities, seven elected County Commissioners.
Morris dance
Morris dance (morris dancing): English folk dance of rhythmic stepping, choreographed figures, bell pads, sticks, swords, and hankies; documented from 1448; styles include Cotswold, Border, rapper; 12,600 UK dancers in 2023.
Morris Day
Morris Day, born 1957 in Springfield, Illinois, is an American funk singer, musician, and actor, lead singer of Prince's 1981 Minneapolis band The Time and Prince's rival in Purple Rain, later a solo R&B hitmaker with "Fishnet".
Morris Dees
Morris Dees (born 1936) is an Alabama lawyer who co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center with Joe Levin in 1971 and pioneered hate-group liability lawsuits, including the $7 million verdict that bankrupted the United Klans of America; he was fired by the SPLC in March 2019.
Morris E. Fine
Morris E. Fine (1918–2015) was an American physical metallurgist who co-founded what is described as the first university materials science department at Northwestern and developed NUCu copper-strengthened steels used in Illinois bridges.
Morris Engel
Morris Engel (1918–2005) was an American photographer, cinematographer, and filmmaker known for photographs of New York street life and for the independent film Little Fugitive (1953).
Morris F. White
Morris F. White is an American biochemist, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering the insulin receptor substrate (IRS) proteins central to insulin action.
Morris Friedkin
Morris Friedkin was an American biochemist known for his work on folic acid metabolism, DNA synthesis, and cancer chemotherapy, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Morris Goodman (molecular evolutionist)
Morris Goodman (1925–2010) was an American molecular evolutionist and founder of molecular anthropology at Wayne State University, who showed humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas are closest relatives.
Morris Green
Morris Green (1922–2013) was an American pediatrician and educator who led Indiana University's pediatrics department from 1967 to 1987 and helped create the Bright Futures health guidelines.
Morris Halle
Morris Halle (1923–2018) was an American linguist who co-created MIT Linguistics and, with Noam Chomsky, wrote The Sound Pattern of English (1968), a landmark of phonology.
Morris J. Birnbaum
Morris J. Birnbaum is an American physician-scientist in diabetes research, credited with cloning GLUT4 and defining insulin signaling through Akt, and a Senior Vice President at Pfizer since 2014.