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Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is a BBC Two series (since 20 June 2018) in which comedians Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse fish for a target species while discussing life and heart disease; Ted the terrier joined in series 3 (2020) and died in April 2026.
Mortimer B. Lipsett
Mortimer B. Lipsett (1921–1985) was an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at the NIH who helped make choriocarcinoma the first cancer cured by chemotherapy alone, and held three NIH directorships.
Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902-2001), American philosopher and educator, editor of Great Books of the Western World and the Syntopicon, author of How to Read a Book, founder of the Paideia Project and Institute for Philosophical Research.
Mortimer Mishkin
Mortimer Mishkin (1926–2021) was an American neuropsychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health whose monkey lesion studies established how the brain organizes perception and memory.
Mortimer Poncz
Mortimer Poncz is an American pediatric hematologist and physician-scientist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, known for research on congenital platelet disorders.
Mortimer Sackler
Mortimer Sackler, American physician and co-owner of Purdue Frederick and Purdue Pharma with brothers Arthur and Raymond; his branch of the family, its OxyContin litigation, and the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation philanthropy.
Mortimer Zuckerman
Mortimer Zuckerman, known as Mort Zuckerman, is a Canadian-American real-estate billionaire and media owner who co-founded Boston Properties and owned U.S. News & World Report.
Mortise and tenon
The mortise and tenon is a classic woodworking joint in which a rectangular tenon fits into a matching mortise, giving strong furniture, doors, and timber frames.
Mortise lock
A mortise lock, also called a sashlock, is a door lock whose lock body is fitted into a pocket cut into the door edge, common on commercial doors.
Mortlake Tapestry Works
The Mortlake Tapestry Works was an English tapestry manufactory established in 1619 at Mortlake, southwest of London, under James I and directed by Sir Francis Crane until 1703.
Morton B. Panish
Morton B. Panish, born 1929 in New York, is an American physical chemist who co-demonstrated the first room-temperature continuous-wave semiconductor laser at Bell Labs in 1970.
Morton Brown
Morton Brown (1931–2024) was an American topologist at the University of Michigan best known for his 1960 proof of the generalized Schoenflies theorem, which won him the 1966 Veblen Prize.
Morton Collins
Morton Collins was an American chemical engineer turned venture capitalist who founded Data Science Ventures in 1968 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Morton Downey Jr.
Morton Downey Jr. (Sean Morton Downey, 1932–2001), American talk-show host, son of singer Morton Downey Sr.; his confrontational 1987–1989 WWOR show pioneered trash TV, collapsed after a 1989 swastika hoax claim.
Morton E. Gurtin
Morton E. Gurtin (1934–2022) was an American mathematician and mechanician at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his 1975 continuum theory of elastic material surfaces and for configurational forces.
Morton Halperin
Morton H. Halperin (born 1938) is an American foreign policy expert, Pentagon Papers contributor, and author of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy, who served in the Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton administrations and later advised the Open Society Foundations.
Morton I. Grossman
Morton I. Grossman (1919–1981) was an American gastroenterologist and gastrointestinal physiologist who led research on gastrin and founded the first NIH digestive diseases center, CURE, in 1974.
Morton Kramer
Morton Kramer (1914–1998) was an American biostatistician called the father of mental health statistics; at NIMH he created the 1952 Model Reporting Area, a national mental health reporting system used for decades.
Morton L. Curtis
Morton L. Curtis (1921–1989) was an American mathematician and W. L. Moody Professor at Rice University, known for the Andrews–Curtis conjecture, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, and work on finite H-spaces.
Morton N. Swartz
Morton N. Swartz (1923–2013) was an American infectious-diseases physician and Harvard professor who founded and led Massachusetts General Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases for 34 years, from 1956.
Morton National Park
Morton National Park, NSW, Australia: large national park gazetted 1967, successor to the 1938 Morton Primitive Reserve; sandstone plateaus, gorges, Fitzroy Falls, Bundanoon, Budawangs wilderness, Pigeon House Mountain (Didthul).
Morton S. Roberts
Morton S. Roberts (Morton Spitz Roberts, 1926–2024) was an American radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory whose galaxy rotation measurements gave early evidence for dark matter.
Morton Strait
Morton Strait, also historically called Straits of Despair or Hell's Gate, is a hazardous NW-SE strait in the South Shetland Islands between Byers Peninsula, Rugged Island, and Snow Island, charted by sealers and approved as a name in 1953.
Morton's neuroma
Morton's neuroma, or interdigital neuroma, is a thickening of tissue around an irritated common plantar digital nerve between the toes, usually the third web space. Treated first with footwear changes, then steroid injections or neurectomy; not a true nerve tumor.
Morton's toe
Morton's toe, also called Morton's foot or Greek foot, is a congenital foot shape with a short first metatarsal making the second toe look longer; distinct from Morton's neuroma, prevalence about 10-66% by population.
Mortoniceras
Mortoniceras, also written Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras), is an extinct Albian to early Cenomanian ammonoid genus (type species Ammonites vespertinus) whose tuberculate, keeled shells define upper Albian ammonite biozones worldwide.
Mortsafe
Mortsafe: an iron cage or iron-and-stone case placed over a Scottish grave for about six weeks after burial to stop resurrectionists selling corpses to anatomy schools; obsolete after the 1832 Anatomy Act.
Mortuary temple of Amenhotep II
The mortuary temple of Amenhotep II was an 18th-Dynasty Temple of Millions of Years on the Theban west bank, built around 1427 BC and now almost entirely destroyed.
Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III
The Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, today called Kom el-Hettan, was the 18th Dynasty pharaoh's funerary temple at Thebes, the largest on the Nile's west bank opposite Luxor.
Mortuary Temple of Ay and Horemheb
The Mortuary Temple of Ay and Horemheb is a ruined Egyptian royal mortuary temple at Medinet Habu on the Theban west bank, begun by Ay and usurped by Horemheb.