Famous People with Name Morgan

Morgan Russell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Russell: was a U.S. abstract painter. He was born and raised in New York City in 1886. He was along with artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright the founder of Synchromism an important modernist movement in early 20th century art.Initially he studied architecture and after 1903 he became friendly with the sculptor Arthur Lee for whom he posed as a model, and lived with for a while. During the period from 1903-1905 he studied sculpture at the Art Students League, with Lee and James Earle Fraser, (where he also posed as a model for the sculpture class). With financial help from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney whom he met at the League in late January 1906 he traveled to Paris to study art. In 1907 after returning to New York City he studied painting at the League with Robert Henri among others. Returning to Paris in 1909 he studied at Matisse’s art school.[1][2] After meeting Stanton Macdonald-Wright in 1911, the two began developing theories about color and its relationship to pattern

Morgan Knabe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Knabe: is a breaststroke swimmer from Canada, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. His best Olympic results were a sixth place in the 100m Breaststroke, and with the Men's 4x100m Medley Relay in Sydney, Australia.

Morgan Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Alexander: is a Canadian bobsledder who competed from 2002 to 2006.Alexander also finished fourth in the four-man event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Morgan Paul Ensberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Paul Ensberg: is a former infielder in Major League Baseball. Ensberg bats and throws right-handed. He was previously a member of the San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, and New York Yankees.Ensberg was drafted in the 9th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft. In spring training of 2000, Ensberg and five of his teammates were in their hotel room when two gunmen burst in. Aaron Miles was in the next room and wrestled one of the gunmen to the ground before the other one fled, only to be caught later on. The other players involved were, Derrek Nicholson, Keith Ginter, Mike Rose, and Eric Cole.[1]

Morgan Carl Hamm            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morgan Carl Hamm: is an American artistic gymnast. He represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Stanley Douglas Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stanley Douglas Morgan: is a former NFL wide receiver who played for the New England Patriots. Morgan was selected out of the University of Tennessee in the first round of the 1977 NFL Draft (25th overall). He also played one season for the Indianapolis Colts in 1990. He holds the all-purpose yards record for the University of Tennessee, which stands at 4,642.

William Wilson Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Wilson Morgan: was an American astronomer.The principal theme in Morgan's work was the study of stellar and galaxy classification. Along with Philip Keenan he developed the MK system for the classification of stars through their spectra. He also developed several galaxy morphological classification systems, including the first systems to use the physical properties of galaxies, as opposed to simple eye-ball estimates favoured by Edwin Hubble. He invented the now widely used classification cD for massive galaxies in the centres of clusters.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. Along with Donald Osterbrock and Stewart Sharpless, he used distance measurements of O and B type stars to show the existence of spiral arms in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Thomas Hunt Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Hunt Morgan: was an American geneticist and embryologist. Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1890 and researched embryology during his tenure at Bryn Mawr. Following the rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance in 1900, Morgan's research moved to the study of mutation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. In his famous Fly Room at Columbia University Morgan was able to demonstrate that genes are carried on chromosomes and are the mechanical basis of heredity. These discoveries formed the basis of the modern science of genetics. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 he was the first person awarded the Prize in genetics, for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity[1].

C. Lloyd Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

C. Lloyd Morgan: British psychologist. He is best remembered for the experimental approach to animal psychology, now known as "Morgan's canon".

William Jason Morgan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Jason Morgan: an American geophysicist who has made seminal contributions to the theory of plate tectonics and geodynamics. He is Knox Taylor Professor emeritus of geology and professor of geosciences at Princeton University.After having received his BSc in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1957, he went to Princeton University, where he completed his PhD in 1964 under the supervision of Bob Dicke. He joined the faculty of the university immediately afterwards.His first major contribution, made in the late 1960s, was to relate the magnetic anomalies of alternating polarity, which occur on the ocean bottom at both sides of a mid-ocean ridge, to seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.