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Authorised form of namePryce; Maurice Henry Lecorney (1913 - 2003)
Dates1913 - 2003
Place of birthCroydon, Surrey
Date of birth24/01/1913
Place of deathVancouver, British Columbia
Date of death24/07/2003
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
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)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/03/1951
Age at election38
RelationshipsSon 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)
SourceObituaries:
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
CodeNA4676
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1951/18Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorney: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/60/52Referee's report by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, on a paper 'On the new field theory' by Maurice Henry Lecorney PryceMarch 1936
RR/60/53Referee'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 PryceNovember 1936
RR/65/219Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The electromagnetic energy of a point charge' by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce1938
RR/71/245Referee'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 Pryce1948
RR/72/163Referee'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/4378Pryce, Maurice Henry Lecorneynd
MS/836Radar Calculation by M H L Pryce20th Century
RR/73/121Referee'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 Swiatecki1950
RR/73/118Referee'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 Jahn1950
RR/75/25Referee'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 Wieringen3 May 1951
RR/77/115Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Quantum theory of bound states. Bound states in weak interaction' by R J Eden25 July 1952
RR/79/68Referee'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 Rickayzen28 April 1953
RR/79/18Referee'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 Jahn7 March 1953
RR/79/119Referee'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 Eden28 May 1953
RR/77/166Referee'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 Belcher27 August 1952
RR/79/137Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Theory of line breadth phenomena' by E Arnoust and Walter Heinrich Heitler28 July 1953
RR/79/122Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Production of mesons and the localization of field energy' by Homi Jehangir Bhabha24 June 1953
RR/79/182Referee'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 Pople18 September 1953
RR/79/214Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'An explicit formula for the calculation of fractional parentage coefficients' by P J Redmond8 November 1953
RR/79/215Referee's report by Maurice Henry Lecorney Pryce, on a paper 'Singularities of electron kernel functions in an external electromagnetic field' by J G Valatin18 September 1953
RR/79/237Referee'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 Gupta9 November 1953
RR/73/209Referee'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 Pryce19 September 1950
RR/73/236Referee'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 Pryce19 September 1950
RR/73/254Referee'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 Pryce25 October 1950
RR/77/263Referee'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 Eden8 January 1953
RR/79/184Referee'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 Pople18 September 1953
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