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Authorised form of name	Dainton; Frederick Sydney (1914 - 1997); Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors
Dates	1914 - 1997
Nationality	British
Date of birth	11/11/1914
Date of death	05/12/1997
Activity	Education: Central Secondary School for Boys, Sheffield; Goldsmiths' Company Exhibition to St John's College, Oxford (1933-1937) BA (1937) First Class Honours in Chemistry; Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1937-1940) Goldsmiths' Company Senior Student (1939) PhD (1940) Career: Demonstrator in Chemistry, University of Cambridge (1944); Fellow, St Catherine's College, Cambridge and Lecturer, Physicial Chemistry (1945); Professor of Physical Chemistry, Leeds University (1950-1965); Vice-Chancellor, Nottingham University (1965-1969); member of the Council for Scientific Policy (1965-1972); member of Working Group on Manpower Parameters for scientific growth (1965-1968); Chairman of the National Libraries Committee (1967-1969); member of Central Advisory Council for Science and Technology (1967-1970); Honorary Director of the Cookridge Radiation Research Centre, Leeds; Dr Lees' Professor of Chemistry, Oxford (1969-1972); Chairman of Council for Scientific Policy and it successor body the Advisory Board for the Research Councils (1969-1973); Chairman, University Grants Committee (1973-1978); National Radiological Protection Board (1977-1985), Chairman (1978-1985); Chairman of British Library Board (1978-1985); Chancellor of University of Sheffield (1978-1997); Chairman of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (1980-1989), President (1989-1997); member of the Court of Governors, London School of Economics (1980-1997), Chairman of Library Panel (1986-); Goldsmiths' Company Court of Assistants (1973), Prime Warden (1982-1983), Chairman of Education Committee; served on House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, chairing the Adacemic Research Careers Sub-Committee, the Systematic Biology Research Sub-Committee and the Forensic Science Sub-Committee; awarded 25 honorary degrees from universities worldwide; awarded Faraday Medal (1974) Memberships: Foreign Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Academy of Sciences Gottingen, American Philosophical Society; Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College Cambridge, St John's College Oxford, Goldsmiths' College London, Queen Mary and Westfield College London, the London School of Economics, Birkbeck College London and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School Honours: Kt 1971; Baron 1986
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	21/03/1957
Age at election	42
RSActivity	Royal Society roles: Council: 1964-1966 Medals and prizes: Davy Medal 1969
Relationships	Son of George and Mary Dainton; married (1942) Barbara Hazlitt
Source	Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2000 vol 46 pp 85-124, plate, by P Gray and K J Ivin AssocMaterial: NCUACS 112/11/02 Papers deposited at University of Sheffield Library References: N Calver and M Parker ' The logic of scientific Unity? Medawar, the Royal Society and the Rothschild controversy 1971-2.' In Notes and Records, Vol 70, Issue 1, March 2016 pp 83-100
Code	NA3639

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
HWT/36/2/9	Working Party on Scientific Interchange	August-October 1971
HWT/36/2/5	Working Party on Scientific Interchange	July-August 1970
PB/1/20	Correspondence re Blackett's membership of official government committees	1964-1970
IM/001033	Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors	nd
WF/918	Grant application from the University of Hull to the Wolfson Foundation	1978-1988
WF/779	Grant applications from University of East Anglia to the Wolfson Foundation	1974-1978
WF/534	Grant applications from the The National Art Collections Fund to the Wolfson Foundation	1977-1983
WF/407	Grant application from University College, Oxford to the Wolfson Foundation	1972-1981
WF/78A	Grant application from Imperial College London to the Wolfson Foundation	1958-2011
HWT/12	European Institute of Science and Technology	1968
HWT/40/24	Correspondence and papers regarding ICSU Executive Committee meeting, Helsinki	1972
PB/7/1/3/1	Correspondence with Atma Ram	1971-1972
WF/512	Grant application from the University of East Anglia to the Wolfson Foundation	1977-1979
WF/584	Grant application from the Southwell Minster Appeal to the Wolfson Foundation	29 June 1978
RR/67/95	Second referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on three papers 'A study of sensitized explosions. Parts V, VI and VII' by Frederick Sydney Dainton and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish	July 1940
IM/GA/Russell/5208	Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors	nd
IM/005691	Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors	nd
WF/385	Grant applications from the Royal College of General Practitioners to the Wolfson Foundation	1971-1985
WF/650	Grant application from The University of Nottingham to the Wolfson Foundation	1 January 1976
RR/67/94	Referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on three papers 'A study of sensitized explosions. Parts V, VI and VII' by Frederick Sydney Dainton and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish	June 1940
EC/1957/06	Dainton, Frederick Sydney, Baron Dainton of Hallam Moors: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/75/271	Referee's report by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'The kinetics of polysuphone formation. Part I. The formation of 1-butene polysulphone at 25° C' by Frederick Sydney Dainton and K J Ivin	12 October 1951
RR/75/272	Referee's report by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'The kinetics of polysulphone formation. Part II. The formation of 1-butene polysulphone in the region of the ceiling temperature' by Frederick Sydney Dainton and K J Ivin	12 October 1951
RR/75/274	Authors' responses to points raised by the referee of two papers, 'The kinetics of polysuphone formation. Part I. The formation of 1-butene polysulphone at 25° C' and 'The kinetics of polysulphone formation. Part II. The formation of 1-butene polysulphone in the region of the ceiling temperature' by Frederick Sydney Dainton and K J Ivin	[1951]
RR/75/273	Copy of Referees' comments on two papers, 'The kinetics of polysuphone formation. Part I. The formation of 1-butene polysulphone at 25° C' and 'The kinetics of polysulphone formation. Part II. The formation of 1-butene polysulphone in the region of the ceiling temperature' by Frederick Sydney Dainton and K J Ivin	[1951]

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