Person Pryce; Maurice Henry Lecorney (1913 - 2003) Pryce Maurice Henry Lecorney 1913 - 2003 Male Croydon, Surrey 24/01/1913 19130124 Vancouver, British Columbia 24/07/2003 20030724

Physics 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) 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) Fellow 15/03/1951 38 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 ©Godfrey Argent Studio International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-20426 24 Jan 1913 - NA4676 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 2a0e046a-b9e1-446c-a4e2-9fc34eac4ad5