Maurice Say
Prof Maurice George Say
Life
He was born in
After a brief spell in industry he joined the Royal Technical College in Glasgow in 1926. In 1933 he received a professorship from Heriot-Watt in Edinburgh, remaining there for the remainder of his career.
In 1935 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Cameron Smail, Alexander Robert Horne, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, and John Brown Clark.[3]
In 1960/61 he presented the Faraday Lectures to the Institution of Electrical Engineers. In 1960 he also presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.
He retired in 1963 just before Heriot Watt was given university status. They awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc) in 1985.
Death
He died on 14 November 1992.
Family
In 1926, he married Eileen Mary Ashworth. They had a daughter, Monica Ashworth Say (born on 5 November 1927 in Glasgow), and a son, David Giles Ashworth Say (born on 11 May 1939 in Glasgow).
Publications
- Performance and Design of A/C Machines (1936)
- Electrical Engineers Reference Book (1945) and many later editions
- Analogue and Digital Computers (1960)
- Unified Theory of Electromagnetic Machines (1971)
- A/C Machines (1983)
- D/C Machines (1986) (co-written with Eric Openshaw Taylor)[4]
References
- ^ "Maurice George Say - Graces Guide".
- ^ "Maurice George Say" (PDF). www.rse.mtcserver6.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 May 2018.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ISBN 9780273024576.