ABSTRACT
Morris Muskat was born in Latvia. He graduated in 1926 from the Ohio State University as a physicist and in 1929 submitted a PhD thesis to the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. He was then a theoretical physicist of Gulf Research and Development Company in Pittsburg PA and from 1935 to 1948 was a technical director of the physics division in the US Bureau of Mines. At retirement in 1971, he was the Technical Adviser of the Gulf Oil Corporation. Muskat was an associated editor of the Journal of Applied Physics and became a US citizen in 1941. He was a Fellow of the Physical Society, the Institution of Mines and Metal Engineers, the Geophysical Union and presided over the Physical Society of Pittsburg in 1940. He was awarded the Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal in 1953 and the Lester C. Uren Award in 1969 from the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He was elected in 1971 Member of the American Academy of Engineering ‘in recognition of service to industry and the Institute through his creative investigations and published works that provided fundamental insights into petroleum recovery mechanisms and stimulated the application of reservoir engineering to production practice’.
