Lieutenant Colonel William Arthur ProwseOBE TD (1907– 14 July 1981)[1] was a British physicist and academic administrator. He was the founding Master of Van Mildert College, Durham.[2]
Prowse matriculated at Hatfield College, Durham and graduated with a degree in Physics from Durham University in 1927. He completed his doctorate at the same institution in 1931 – this time, per the conditions of the Pemberton Studentship, as a member of University College.[3] Except for a brief period of secondment under Willis Jackson at Imperial College, London from 1947 to 1948, he spent his entire academic career in Durham.[3] He served as Vice-Master of University College from 1953 to 1965.[3]
Active in the Officers' Training Corps, in 1966 he was awarded the O.B.E. He retired to Brancepeth in 1972.[1]
Academic offices
Preceded by
New title
Principal of Van Mildert College, Durham 1965–1972
Succeeded by
Paul Kent
^ ab"Lieut Col W. A. Prowse". The Times. 17 July 1981. p. 16.
^"Building the College". Durham University. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
^ abc"William Arthur Prowse". Durham University Gazette (26): 10–11. 1982.
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