| 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 |
| 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/75/273 | 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] |
| 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/75/271 | 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 |