Dainton (other)

	Dainton (other) Dainton may refer to: * Dainton, Devon, a settlement in Teignbridge, Devon, England ** Dainton Bank, a railway incline in Devon People with the surname * Bethan Dainton (born 1989), Welsh international rugby union player * Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Kt, FRS, FRSE (11 November 1914 – 5 December 1997) was a British academic chemist and university administrator. A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he was successively Professor of Physical Chemistry ... (1914–1997), British academic chemist and university administrator * John Dainton, British physicist and professor, son of Frederick Dainton See also * * Danton (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Teignbridge Teignbridge is a local government district in Devon, England. Its council is based in Newton Abbot. Other towns in the district include Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish and Teignmouth. It is named for the old Teignbridge hundred. The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of the Ashburton, Buckfastleigh, Dawlish, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth urban district Urban district may refer to: * District * Urban area * Quarter (urban subdivision) * Neighbourhood Specific subdivisions in some countries: * Urban districts of Denmark * Urban districts of Germany * Urban district (Great Britain and Ireland) (hist ...s along with Newton Abbot Rural District and part of St Thomas Rural District. Politics Elections to the borough council are held every four years, with all of the 46 seats on the council being elected at each election. The council had been under no overall control since the 1983, until the Conservatives gained a major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Dainton Bank The South Devon Banks are a series of steep inclines on the ex- GWR railway line linking Exeter and Plymouth in Devon, England. These two cities are separated by the rocky uplands of Dartmoor forcing the early railway surveyors to propose that the line skirt the difficult terrain of the comparatively sparsely populated moorland. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in surveying the South Devon Railway, opted to push a line along a coastal strip between the Exe and Teign valleys, and then to climb the southern outliers of Dartmoor making for the head of the Plym estuary. From Newton Abbot, the line climbs Dainton Bank, and from Totnes it climbs Rattery Bank, reaches a peak at Wrangaton summit, and then descends Hemerdon Bank to reach Plymouth. These three are collectively known as the South Devon Banks. Dainton Bank The third steepest main line bank on the British mainland, with 2 miles varying between 1 in 36 and 1 in 57. Leaving Newton Abbot station, the line is near level until Aller J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bethan Dainton Bethan Dainton (born 12 April 1989) is a Welsh rugby league player who plays as for Leeds Rhinos. She formerly played rugby union as back row for the Wales women's national rugby union team and Harlequins Women in the Allianz's Premier 15s. She made her debut for the Wales national squad in 2016, and represented them at the 2021 Women's Six Nations Championship. Club career Dainton has a long-established sporting career, having represented Wales in athletics and cross country in both Union and league codes. However, she did not begin playing rugby until 2015, when she was invited to play for the Dragon's sevens team by Wales player Gemma Rowland. Dainton then played for Bristol Bears before signing with her current club, Harlequins Women in the Premier 15s . International career After joining the Dragon's sevens team in 2015, Dainton represented Wales in both legs of the Rugby Europe Championship in Russia and France, where she helped Wales secure a place in the Women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Knight bachelor, Kt, Royal Society, FRS, FRSE (11 November 1914 – 5 December 1997) was a British academic chemist and university administrator. A graduate of University of Oxford, Oxford and University of Cambridge, Cambridge, he was successively Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Dr Lee's Professorships, Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and Chancellor (education), Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. Early life and education Dainton was born in Sheffield on 11 November 1914, the son of George Whalley Dainton (born 1857), a Clerk of Works to a building contractor, and his second wife Mary Jane Bottrill, as the youngest of nine children. He obtained a scholarship to the Central Secondary School in Sheffield, but it was in the public library that he became enthused of chemistry by reading the books of Nevil Sidgwick, Sidgwick and Cyril Norman Hinshelw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	John Dainton John Bourke Dainton FRS is a British physicist, and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics, at University of Liverpool. Dainton was awarded the Max Born Prize in 1999. His father was Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton. He was founding director of the Cockcroft Institute. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002 and in 2018 he became Editor of the Royal Society journal, ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences'' is a fortnightly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society. It publishes original research and review content in a wide ...''. References External links https://web.archive.org/web/20120512001007/https://www.desy.de/~dainton/ http://www.wingate.org.uk/theDaintonsandWingate.php https://web.archive.org/web/20111025175327/https://lists.bnl.gov/pipermail/eic-bnl-tf-l/2011-August/000235.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Dainton, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]