Morse

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Morse can be a surname, including:

Alan Morse, guitarist A. Reynolds Morse & Eleanor R. Morse, a husband and wife team of American industrialists and philanthropists Anthony P. Morse, mathematician and co–author of the Morse–Kelley set theory Sir Arthur Morse (1892-1967), British banker Arthur D. Morse, historian Barry Morse (born 1918), British-Canadian actor Brent Morse, businessman Carlton E. Morse (1901-1993), American radio producer Charles Copeland Morse (born 1842), American businessman Charles E. Morse (1841-1920), American soldier Christopher Morse, American theologian Chuck Morse, American journalist Chuck W. Morse (born 1969), American anarchist David Morse (born 1953), American actor David Morse, Canadian politician David A. Morse (1907-1990), American bureaucrat Edward S. Morse (1838-1925), American zoologist and anthropologist Eleanor Morse, American industrialist and philanthropist Elijah A. Morse (1841-1898), American politician Ella Mae Morse (1924-1999), American singer Elmer A. Morse (1870-1945), American politician Emerante Morse, Haitian singer Ephraim Morse (1823-1906), American settler of San Diego Eric Morse, pen name for author William Pattison Erik Morse, journalist and rock writer F. Bradford Morse (1921-1994), American politician Frank Morse (California attorney), American lawyer and businessman Freeman H. Morse (1807-1891), American politician Hayward Morse (born 1947), British actor Helen Morse (born 1948), Australian actress Saint Henry Morse (1595-1645), English priest Isaac Edward Morse (1809-1866), American politician Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826), American clergyman and geographer, father of Samuel Morse Jennifer Morse, journalist Sir Jeremy Morse, British educator

John Morse, British political candidate John Morse (born 1954), American politician John Paul Morse (born 1958), American PGA Tour professional golfer Joshua Morse, American professor Josiah Mitchell Morse American writer Ken Morse (born 1949), British cameraman Kenneth Morse, American businessman Laila Morse (born 1945), British actress Lee Morse (1897-1954), American singer Leopold Morse (1831-1892), American politician Luis C. Morse (born 1940), American politician Marston Morse (1892-1977), American mathematician Mike Morse (born 1982), American baseball player Neal Morse (born 1960), American musician Nicholas Morse (died 1772), British president of Madras Oliver A. Morse (1815-1870), American politician Philip M. Morse (1903-1985), American physicist Ralph Morse (born 1917), American photographer Ralph Morse (born 1955), English actor, singer, writer and historian Rebecca Morse, Australian journalist Richard A. Morse (born 1957), Haitian-American musician Richard M. Morse (1922-2001), American Latin-American scholar Robert Morse (born 1931), American actor Roger Morse (1927-2000), American biologist Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American inventor and painter; invented the Morse code system Scott Morse, American animator Sidney Edwards Morse (1794-1871), American inventor Stan Morse, American actor Stephen Morse (born 1945), American poet Stephen Morse, engineer Steve Morse (born 1954), American guitarist, member of the group Deep Purple Theodora Morse (1883-1953), American lyricist Theodore F. Morse (1873-1924), American composer Toby Morse, American singer Todd Morse, American guitarist Wayne Morse (1900-1974), American politician Wesley Morse (1897-1963), American cartoonist

Morse can be the name of a place, including:

• Morse Auditorium, a domed theater owned by Boston University
• Morse College, a residential college at Yale University
• Morse (CTA), an 'L' station on a line of the Chicago [Rapid] Transit Authority
• Morse, Louisiana, a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States
• Morse, Saskatchewan a hamlet of Saskatchewan, Canada
• Morse No. 165, Saskatchewan a rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada

More generally, Morse can be:

• The large buckle on the cope, one of the liturgical vestments of the Roman Catholic Church
• an archaic word for walrus, a large aquatic mammal
• Morse chain, a chain drive with inverted teeth
• Morse code, a method of coding messages into long and short beeps, often transmitted using continuous wave
• Morse taper, a means of attaching a chuck to a lathe using the friction between a conical hole and a matching conical spindle

[edit] See also

• Inspector Morse, a British detective fiction book series and television show
• Morse potential, a model interatomic potential energy function
• Morse theory, in mathematics, a way of analyzing the topology of a manifold by studying differentiable functions on that manifold
• Thue-Morse sequence, in mathematics, a binary sequence