Authorised form of name | Pryce; Maurice Henry Lecorney (1913 - 2003) |
Dates | 1913 - 2003 |
Place of birth | Croydon, Surrey |
Date of birth | 24/01/1913 |
Place of death | Vancouver, British Columbia |
Date of death | 24/07/2003 |
Research field | Physics |
Activity | Education: Royal Grammar School, Guildford; Trinity College, Cambridge (1930-1935) Career: Commonwealth Fund Fellow, Princeton University (1935-1937); Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1937-1939, 1945-1946); Faculty Assistant Lecturer, Cambridge University (1937-1939); University Lecturer in Mathematics, Cambridge University (1945-1946); Reader in Theoretical Physics, Liverpool University (1939-1945); worked on radar with Admiralty Signal Establishment (1941) and on Joint Atomic Energy Project, Montreal (1944); Wykeham Professor of Physics, Oxford University, included a sabbatical as Visiting Professor at Princeton (1946-1954); appointed part time head of the theoretical physics division of the the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell (1950); Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics, Bristol University (1954-1964); Professor of Physics, University of Southern California (1964-1968); Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of British Columbia (1968-1978)
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 15/03/1951 |
Age at election | 38 |
Relationships | Son of William Pryce, Mathematics Lecturer at University of Wales, Cardiff and Patents Examiner; married 1. (1939) Margarete Born (marriage dissolved 1959) 2. Freda Kinsey (d 1989) |
Sources | Obituaries: The Independent (29 August 2003); The Times (08 September 2003) Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2005 vol 51 pp 355-366, plate, by Sir Roger Elliott FRS and J H Sanders References: G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262 B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 2. Progress from 1945 to 1970' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 323 - 330 |
Royal Society code | NA4676 |
Reference number | Title | Date |
EC/1951/18 | Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorney: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
RR/60/52 | Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the new field theory' by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | March 1936 |
RR/60/53 | Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the new field theory II-Quantum theory of field and charges' by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | November 1936 |
RR/65/219 | Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The electromagnetic energy of a point charge' by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 1938 |
RR/71/245 | Referee's report by Homi Jehangir Bhabha, on a paper 'The mass-centre in the restricted theory of relativity and its connexion with the quantum theory of elementary particles' by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 1948 |
RR/72/163 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper on a paper 'Theoretical studies in nuclear structure I. Enumeration and classification of the states arising from the filling of the nuclear d-shell' by H A Jahn | 28 December 1949 |
IM/GA/WS/4378 | Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorney | nd |
MS/836 | Radar Calculation by M H L Pryce | 20th Century |
RR/73/118 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Theoretical studies in nuclear structure. II. Nuclear d2, d3 and d4 configurations. Fractional parentage coefficients and central force matrix elements' by Hermann Arthur Jahn | 1950 |
RR/73/121 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney, on a paper 'Theoretical studies in nuclear structure. III. Radial integrals for the nuclear s, p and d shells' by Wladyslaw J Swiatecki | 1950 |
RR/77/263 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Quantum field theory of bound states. II. Relativistic theory of resonance reactions' by R J Eden | 8 January 1953 |
RR/79/18 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Theoretical studies in nuclear structure IV' by J P Elliott, J Hope and H A Jahn | 7 March 1953 |
RR/79/68 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Quantum field theory of bound states. III. Bound states in strong interaction' by R J Eden and G Rickayzen | 28 April 1953 |
RR/79/119 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Quantum field theory of bound states IV Relativistic theory of the excited states of hydrogen' by R J Eden | 28 May 1953 |
RR/79/122 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Production of mesons and the localization of field energy' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha | 24 June 1953 |
RR/79/137 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Theory of line breadth phenomena' by E Arnoust and Walter Heinrich Heitler | 28 July 1953 |
RR/79/182 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'The statistical mechanics of assemblies of axially symmetric molecules. I. General theory' by John Anthony Pople | 18 September 1953 |
RR/79/184 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'The statistical mechanics of assemblies of axially symmetric molecules. II. Second virial coefficients' by John Anthony Pople | 18 September 1953 |
RR/79/214 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'An explicit formula for the calculation of fractional parentage coefficients' by P J Redmond | 8 November 1953 |
RR/79/215 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Singularities of electron kernel functions in an external electromagnetic field' by J G Valatin | 18 September 1953 |
RR/79/237 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Bhabha's equation for a particle of two mass states in Rarita-Schwinger form' by K K Gupta | 9 November 1953 |
RR/73/209 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'Theory of the nuclear hyperfine structure of paramagnetic resonance spectra in crystals' by Anatole Abragam and Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 19 September 1950 |
RR/73/236 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The theory of the nuclear hyperfine structure of paramagnetic resonance spectra in the copper tutton salts' by Anatole Abragam and Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 19 September 1950 |
RR/73/254 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The theory of paramagnetic resonance in hydrated cobalt salts' by Anatole Abragam and Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce | 25 October 1950 |
RR/75/25 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Theoretical studies in nuclear structure IV Wave functions for the nuclear p-shell' by H A Jahn and H van Wieringen | 3 May 1951 |
RR/77/115 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Quantum theory of bound states. Bound states in weak interaction' by R J Eden | 25 July 1952 |
RR/77/166 | Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'The luminescence of irradiated transparent media and the Cerenkov effect. I. The luminescence of aqueous solutions of radioactive isotopes' by E H Belcher | 27 August 1952 |