Honors
Morley was the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1895, and he was the president of the American Chemical Society in 1899. Morley was awarded the Davy Medal, named for the great British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, by the Royal Society of London, England in 1907, and he also won the Elliott Cresson Medal, awarded by the Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania, in 1912, for important contributions to the science of chemistry. He had received the Willard Gibbs Medal of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society in 1899.
The lunar crater Morley on the near side was named for him. The Morley Elementary School in West Hartford Conn. was also named for him. His house in West Hartford was made a National Historic Landmark in 1975.
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