Hughes Medal (1955) Royal Medal (1958) knight bachelor (1960)
Scientific career
Fields
Physicist
Institutions
Cavendish Laboratory Admiralty Mining Establishment Radiation Laboratory Queen's University of Belfast University College London
Thesis
The Collision of Material Particles (1932)
Doctoral advisor
Ralph Fowler
Doctoral students
Alexander Dalgarno David Robert Bates Ian Sloan Alan Martin Michael Seaton
Other notable students
G.D. Allam
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFRS (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics.
A graduate of the University of Melbourne and Cambridge University, where he earned his doctorate at the Cavendish Laboratory, Massey became an independent lecturer in Mathematical Physics at the Queen's University of Belfast in 1933. He was appointed Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College London, in 1938. During the Second World War, Massey worked at the Admiralty Research Laboratory , where he helped devise countermeasures for German magnetic naval mines, and at the Admiralty Mining Establishment in Havant, where he helped develop British naval mines. In 1943, Mark Oliphant persuaded the Admiralty to release Massey to work on the Manhattan Project. He joined Oliphant's British Mission at the Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, where they worked on the electromagnetic isotope separation process. When Oliphant returned to Britain in 1945, Massey took over the Berkeley Mission.
Massey returned to University College London, in October 1945 to find it badly damaged by bombing, and the Mathematics Department in dingy temporary accommodation. In 1950 he was appointed Quain Professor of Physics and head of the University College London Physics Department. The department was merged with Astronomy in 1973, but he remained its head until he retired in 1975. Under his direction, the Physics Department was reoriented towards particle physics and upper atmosphere physics. He worked with the Woomera Rocket Range to develop British Skylark rocket, and was on the governing board of the Anglo-Australian Telescope. He was the chairman of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) from 1959 to 1978, and of its British national chapter. He was also the first Chairman of the European Space Sciences Committee, and helped found the European Space Research Organization and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory at University College London.
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson Massey FRS (16 May 1908 – 27 November 1983) was an Australian mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic...
or has been carried out within the 10 years preceding the award. The HarrieMassey Medal and Prize is awarded biennially jointly by the Institute of Physics...
physicist, John B. Hasted. He learned the course on atomic physics under HarrieMassey and worked on experimental physics under J.B. Hasted.: 137 In 1967...
6 November 1946. During the war, Chadwick, Cockcroft, Oliphant, Peierls, HarrieMassey and Herbert Skinner had met in Washington, D.C., in November 1944, and...
2020-01-24 Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, retrieved 2020-01-24 HarrieMassey Medal and Prize, Institute of Physics, retrieved 2020-01-24...
It was first observed in 1949 by David Bohm, E. H. S. Burhop, and HarrieMassey while studying magnetic arcs for use in isotope separation. It has since...
David Bates, Robert Boyd, Thomas Gaskell, George Deacon, John Gunn, HarrieMassey, and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines...
non-autistic person to access these abilities.[citation needed] He won the HarrieMassey Medal and Prize in 1996. In December 2001 he received the Marconi Prize...
join it. To this end the meeting first elected its "bureau": chairman HarrieMassey, vice-chairmen, Luigi Broglio and Hendrik van de Hulst, and executive...
award winners". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 18 October 2022. Massey, Robert (13 January 2023). "Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2023 award...
Philip Moon and Ernest Walton. There were two fellow Australians: HarrieMassey and John Keith Roberts. Oliphant would become especially close friends...
physicist, Reader in physics at the University of Adelaide, winner of the HarrieMassey Medal and Prize for outstanding contribution to physics in Australia...
distinguished and original experimental researches in radio astronomy" 1955 HarrieMassey "for his distinguished contributions to atomic and molecular physics...
from the University of Melbourne. In 2016, Raymond was awarded the HarrieMassey Medal and Prize, jointly by the Institute of Physics(UK) and the Australian...
Manhattan Project, which created the first atomic bombs. In early 1945, HarrieMassey offered Burhop a position as a lecturer in the Mathematics Department...
K. (1932–1996) Toshihide Maskawa – Japan (1940–2021) Nobel laureate HarrieMassey – Australia (1908–1983) John Cromwell Mather – United States (born 1946)...
Mission headed by Oliphant that included fellow Australian physicists HarrieMassey and Eric Burhop, and British physicists such as Joan Curran and Thomas...
Mathematics at Cambridge University Dennis Lindley, statistician Sir HarrieMassey – Goldsmid Professor of Applied Mathematics, world expert on atomic...
an electron persisted for a few years after its discovery. In 1932 HarrieMassey explored a model for a composite neutron to account for its great penetrating...
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