John Saxton
Male, Deceased Person
1914 – 1980
Who was John Saxton?
John Arthur Saxton CBE FREng, FIEE, FInstP was a British physicist. He was Director of the Appleton Laboratory, Science Research Council, 1966–1977.
He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Imperial College, London, where he was awarded the Imperial College Governors’ Prize for Physics, 1935. He continued at Imperial as a demonstrator 1936–38; before moving onto the National Physical Laboratory, 1938–1952. He worked at the Radio Research Station, 1952–64, and was deputy director from 1960. He was then the Director of the United Kingdom Scientific Mission, Washington, DC, USA, and Scientific Counsellor at the British Embassy there, 1964–66. He then was Visiting Professor of Physics at University College, London, from 1968 until his retirement in 1977.
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