Peter Reed Morrison (11 November 1919, Washington, DC â 22 March 2019) was a professor of animal physiology and a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1954âÂÂ1955.
Morrison graduated in 1940 with a B.S. from Swarthmore College and graduated in 1947 with a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He became a physiology and biology professor at the University of WisconsinâÂÂMadison. Peter was also a professor of zoophysiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from 1963 to 1974. Since then, he retired as professor emeritus. He was also the director of UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology from 1966 to 1974.