Rorschach was born November 25, 1926, in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Harold E. Rorschach Sr. and Margaret Hermes Rorschach. He died as a result of a stroke on June 5, 1993, in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, where he was visiting relatives. Harold attended the
University of Pennsylvania, where he earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. He then entered the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned the Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics in 1951. In 1952, he joined the faculty of Rice University (then named the Rice Institute) in Houston, Texas as a physics professor. In 1963, he was awarded a Brown Prize for Teaching Excellence. After Rorschach's death, his widow established the
Dr. Harold E. Rorschach, Jr. Endowed Undergraduate Research Award in Physics. ==Notes==