| Authorised form of name | Burcham; William Ernest (1913 - 2008) |
| Dates | 1913 - 2008 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Wymondham, Norfolk, England |
| Date of birth | 01/08/1913 |
| Date of death | 05/11/2008 |
| Activity | Career:
Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of Birmingham;
Honours:
CBE 1980
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 21/03/1957 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1977-1979
Lectures:
Rutherford Memorial 1983 |
| Sources | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of the Royal Society, Vol 57, 2011, pp 63-78, plate, by J D Dowell FRS, J A R Griffith and W F Vinen FRS |
| Royal Society code | NA176 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| IM/GA/Russell/5206 | Burcham, William Ernest | nd |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8401 | Burcham, William Ernest | 1985 |
| RR/65/49 | Referee's report by John Douglas Cockcroft, on a paper 'Experiments on the transmutation of fluorine by protons and deutrones' by William Ernest Burcham and C L Smith | December 1938 |
| RR/66/36 | Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Experiments on the transmutation of fluorine by deuterons' by J C Bower and William Ernest Burcham | [August 1939] |
| RR/70/2 | Letter from Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, on a paper 'Resonance phenomena in the interaction of fact neutrons with beryllium and aluminium' by K W Allen , William Ernest Burcham and Denys Haigh Wilkinson | 31 May 1947 |
| EC/1957/05 | Burcham, William Ernest: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/70/1 | Referee's report by Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, on a paper 'Resonance phenomena in the interaction of fact neutrons with beryllium and aluminium' by K W Allen , William Ernest Burcham and Denys Haigh Wilkinson | 1947 |
| RR/66/39 | Memoranda, on a paper 'Resonance phenomena in the disintegration of fluorine by protons' by William Ernest Burcham and Samuel Devons | 4 October 1939 |