Arthur Prowse

{{Short description|British physicist and Academic administrator}}

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Lieutenant Colonel William Arthur Prowse {{postnominals|country=GBR|OBE|TD}} (1907– 14 July 1981){{cite news |title=Lieut Col W. A. Prowse |work=The Times |date=July 17, 1981 |page=16}} was a British physicist and academic administrator. He was the founding Master of Van Mildert College, Durham.{{cite web |title=Building the College |url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/van-mildert.college/about/history/building-college/ |website=Durham University |accessdate=9 September 2019}}

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.{{cite journal |title=William Arthur Prowse |journal=Durham University Gazette |date=1982 |issue=26 |pages=10–11 |url=http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=bookreader/DU_Gazettes/DUGazette26/dg26METS.xml#page/1/mode/2up}} 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. He served as Vice-Master of University College from 1953 to 1965.

Active in the Officers' Training Corps, in 1966 he was awarded the O.B.E. He retired to Brancepeth in 1972.

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