Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
- Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton FRS (November 11 1914 – December 5 1997) was a British academic chemist and university administrator.
A graduate of Oxford and Cambridge, he was Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leeds, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, Professor of Chemistry at Oxford and Chancellor of the University of Sheffield. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1957 (Davy Medal 1969, Faraday Medal 1974), knighted in 1971 and was elevated to a life peerage as Baron Dainton, of Hallam Moors in the County of South Yorkshire in 1986.
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