Morris Cohen

Morris U. Cohen

5th Amendment "communist"

"The field of scientific research is vital to the Armed Forces, yet the subcommittee discovered these significant examples of penetration in this field among those who invoked the fifth amendment, (on Communist Party USA membership) claiming the privilege against self-incrimination":

"The field of scientific research is vital to the Armed Forces, yet the subcommittee discovered these significant examples of penetration in this field among those who invoked the fifth amendment, (on Communist Party USA membership) claiming the privilege against self-incrimination":

• Morris U. Cohen worked as a physicist for the Technical Research Laboratories, which did contract work for the Armed Forces (Education hearings, pp. 997-998).

• Herman Landau, an associate professor at the University of Chicago, worked on ordnance research for the War Department while at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds between 1941 and 1948 (Education, p. 1080).

• Sidney J. Socolar, also of the University of Chicago, had access to classified information in connection with his studies of heat radiation (Education, p. 1097).

• Ralph Spitzer, of the University of Kansas City, was connected with the scientific research development program of the Defense Department with particular reference to the nature of the shock wave and of various phenomena connected with underwater explosives (Education, p: 1124).

• Joseph Steigman, of the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, worked on a Navy research project investigating the analytical chemistry of niobium and tantalum (Education, p. 1004).

Federation of American Scientists

In 2009 Morris Cohen served on the Board of Sponsors of the Federation of American Scientists.