Carl Neracher Morris (1938–2023) was a professor in the Statistics Department of Harvard University and spent several years as a researcher for the RAND Corporation working on the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.
[1] Carl Morris received his BS in Aeronautical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1960 and attended Indiana University until 1962.
He obtained his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University under advisor Charles Stein in 1966.
Morris was a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin where he served as Director of the Center for Statistical Sciences.
Morris is best known for his work on natural exponential families with quadratic variance functions (NEF-QVF), a theory which classifies the most common statistical distributions.