John Dainton

John Bourke Dainton (born September 10, 1947 in Cambridge ) is a British experimental particle physicist .

Dainton is the son of the chemist Frederick Dainton . He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 1972, was at Daresbury Laboratory from 1973 to 1977, at the University of Sheffield from 1977/78 and lecturer at the University of Glasgow from 1978 to 1985 . In 1986 he became a Lecturer, 1991 Reader and 1994 Professor at the University of Liverpool , where he has been Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics since 2002 . He was founding director of the Cockroft Institute for Accelerator Physics at Daresbury from 2005 to 2007 . He is involved in experiments at the Hera accelerator at DESY , where he was spokesman for the H1 detector from 1997 to 1999. He had been a visiting scientist at DESY since 1981.

He was on the LEP, SPS (chairman 2003) and LHC committee of CERN . Since 1999 he has been co-editor of the Journal of High Energy Physics. From 1992 to 1997 he was a Senior Fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC).

In 1999 he received the Max Born Prize and in 2003 the Humboldt Research Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2002) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . In 1983 he became an honorary citizen (Freeman) of London. He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Physics since 1986 .

Web links

• Homepage in Liverpool
• Homepage at DESY
• Homepage at DESY
• Biography at Debretts
• Literature by and about John Dainton in the WorldCat bibliographic database