| 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) |
| Source | 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 |
| Code | NA4676 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | 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 Władysław J Świątecki | 1950 |