John Bourke Dainton FRS is a British physicist, and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics, at University of Liverpool.[1] Dainton was awarded the Max Born Prize in 1999.
His father was Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton. He was founding director of the Cockcroft Institute.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002[3] and in 2018 he became Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.[4]