- Eli Franklin Burton
Eli Franklin Burton, FRSC (
February 14 ,1879 –July 6 ,1948 ) was a Canadian physicist.Burton was born in
Green River , township ofPickering, Ontario ,Canada . He graduated from theUniversity of Toronto in 1901. From 1904 to 1906 he studiedcolloid s withJ. J. Thomson at theCavendish Laboratory at theUniversity of Cambridge , writing an important monograph on the subject in 1938. He also wrote a college textbook on physics. He had become the head of the University of Toronto Physics Department in 1932.Burton developed the first practical
electron microscope at the University of Toronto in the late 1930s with the help of university students Cecil Hall,James Hillier , and Albert Prebus. [ [http://web.mit.edu/Invent/iow/hillier.html MIT biography of Hillier] ] . He was made a fellow of theRoyal Society of Canada and received theHenry Marshall Tory Medal in 1947. He was a member of theNational Research Council of Canada and worked onradar research and training duringWorld War II . Burton died inToronto in 1948. There is now an award given in his name by the Electron Microscopy Society of America.References
* [http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page=citations_tory&lang_id=1&page_id=146#TOC29 Biography] from the Royal Society of Canada on the award of the Henry Marshall Tory Medal, (accessed 2005-12-21).
External links
* [http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001124 Eli Franklin Burton] at
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