Maurice Morton

• 1936 – 1941 Chief Chemist - Johns Manville, Quebec
• 1941 – 1944 Chief Chemist - Congoleum Canada, Montreal
• 1945 – 1948 Assistant Professor and department head at Concordia University
• 1948 – hired by George S. Whitby as assistant director of rubber research for the U. S. Government Rubber Research Program's at the University of Akron. Some of his first accomplishments were the design and execution of experiments to confirm theories developed by Paul J. Flory.
• 1952 – upon retirement of Prof. Whitby, the university appointed Morton as the first Professor of Polymer Chemistry, and assistant director of the chemistry department.
• 1956 – founded the Ph.D. program in Polymer Chemistry at the university's Institute of Rubber Research
• 1962 – served as chairman of the ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry.
• 1993 – retired as Regents Professor Emeritus of Polymer Chemistry

Morton held three patents in polymer chemistry. He wrote more than 100 technical articles over his career, as well as widely used texts.^[3][4] His most cited research article treated the subject of anionic polymerization of vinyl monomers.^[5]

• 1979 – Colwyn medal^[6] of the Plastics and Rubber Institute of Great Britain
• 1985 – Charles Goodyear Medal from the ACS Rubber Division
• 1988 – Paul J. Flory Polymer Education Award
• 1990 – Médaille de la Ville de Paris
• 1991 – Honorary Doctorate, University of Akron
• 1994 – International Rubber Science Hall of Fame^[7]