John Bourke Dainton FRS is a British

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

, and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics, at

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

. Dainton was awarded the Max Born Prize in 1999. His father was

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 ...

. He was founding director of the

Cockcroft Institute The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University, the University ...

. He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, re ...

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 ...

''.

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*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 British physicists Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Liverpool Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people)