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MORRIS MUSKAT
MORRIS MUSKAT
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After graduating from CalTech, Morris joined Gulf Research & Development Company where he remained in various capacities until 1950. He took a one-year hiatus from Gulf, during World War II, to serve as chief of the Acoustics Division of the Naval Ordinance Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
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, established the bases for petroleum reservoir engineering. The evolution of this discipline and the establishment of regulatory bodies such as the Texas Railroad Commission, plus the effective repeal of the "law of capture" (an 1875 judicial opinion that oil and gas were like wild animals and belonged to the person who reduced them to possession)
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Despite his role as the acknowledged founder of reservoir engineering, Morris found time to publish, and to obtain patents, in many diverse fields of science and engineering -- for example, quantum mechanics, scattering of alpha-rays, well logging (microwave and neutron) , mass spectroscopy, isomerization, lubrication theory, hydrodynamics, and mechanics of shaped charges.
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