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British chemist and university administrator
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Dainton, 1990s
In office 1986–1997
Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton , Kt , FRS ,[1] 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 at the University of Leeds , Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham , Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and Chancellor of the University of Sheffield .
Early life and education
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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,[2] as the youngest of nine children.[3]
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 Sidgwick and Hinshelwood .
Dainton won an Exhibition at St John's College, Oxford with a supplementary grant and loan from the City of Sheffield, which enabled him to study chemistry,[3] gaining a first class degree in 1937.[4] He then moved to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where he received his PhD in 1940 working on photochemistry under Ronald Norrish, FRS .[3]
Academic career
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Being short-sighted Dainton was unfit for military service and stayed to teach at Cambridge during the Second World War . In 1945 he became a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge .
In polymer chemistry he explained the thermodynamics of the ceiling temperature of depolymerizable polymers in 1948.[5]
In 1950 Dainton was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds , specialising in radiation chemistry ; work which resulted in his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society.[3]
In 1965 Dainton left Leeds to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham .[3] During this period he chaired a Government enquiry into the decline in university entrants in science and technology, published in 1968 as The Swing away from Science and generally known as the Dainton Report .[4]
In 1970 Dainton was appointed Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford ,[6] moving on in 1973 to become Chairman of the University Grants Committee where he remained until 1985.[4] In 1970 he also became the second chairman of the Council for Scientific Policy .
From 1978 until his death Dainton was Chancellor of the University of Sheffield , the first Yorkshireman to hold the post.[4]
Honours
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Dainton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1957 and in 1996 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[2] In 1972, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .[7] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991.[8]
Dainton was awarded the Davy Medal in 1969 and the Faraday Medal in 1974. He was awarded the inaugural President's Medal of the Institute of Physics in 1998.[9]
He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) by the University of Bath in 1970.[10]
Dainton was knighted in 1971 and received a life peerage as Baron Dainton , of Hallam Moors in South Yorkshire on 14 February 1986.[11]
Marriage and children
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Whilst at Cambridge Dainton met (and in 1942 married) a zoology research student, Barbara Hazlitt Wright (died 12 April 2009). They were married for 55 years and had a son and two daughters.[3]
Death
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Lord Dainton died in Oxford on 5 December 1997 at the age of 83.[2]
Selected publications
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Science: Salvation or Damnation (1971)
Doubts and Certainties: A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century (2000)
References
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^ a b c d e f Ivin, Ken. "Baron DAINTON OF HALLAM MOORS" (PDF) . Rse.org.uk . Royal Society of Edinburgh : Obituary. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2018 .
^ a b c d University of Sheffield. "Dainton Papers" . Shef.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2014 .
^ Dainton, F. S.; Ivin, K. J. (30 October 1948). "Reversibility of the Propagation Reaction in Polymerization Processes and its Manifestation in the Phenomenon of a 'Ceiling Temperature' ". Nature . 162 (4122): 705–707. Bibcode :1948Natur.162..705D . doi :10.1038/162705a0 . ISSN 1476-4687 . S2CID 4105548 .
^ University of Sheffield, Dainton papers, obituary
^ "Frederick Sydney Dainton" . American Academy of Arts & Sciences . Retrieved 7 April 2022 .
^ "APS Member History" . search.amphilsoc.org . Retrieved 7 April 2022 .
^ "President's medal recipients" . Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2020 .
^ "Honorary Graduates 1966 to 1988" . Bath.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2014 .
^ "No. 50438" . The London Gazette . 21 February 1986. p. 2529.
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