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Eli Franklin Burton
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<p>Eli Franklin Burton <a href="/facts/OBE/HlY9buuN">OBE</a>, <a href="/facts/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Canada/80JypAJ7">FRSC</a> (February 14, 1879 – July 6, 1948) was a <a href="/facts/Canadians/9y5ceYgk">Canadian</a> <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a>. </p><p>Burton was born in <a href="/facts/Pickering,_Ontario/9oqNKba7">Green River</a>, township of <a href="/facts/Pickering,_Ontario/9oqNKba7">Pickering, Ontario</a>, Canada. He graduated from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Toronto/FpGjQNm9">University of Toronto</a> in 1901. From 1904 to 1906 he studied <a href="/facts/Colloid/9EVucqND">colloids</a> with <a href="/facts/J._J._Thomson/Y4jyndJF">J. J. Thomson</a> at the <a href="/facts/Cavendish_Laboratory/nh4qJsWs">Cavendish Laboratory</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Cambridge/0la7aX9o">University of Cambridge</a>, 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. </p><p>Burton developed the first practical <a href="/facts/Electron_microscope/XtaBktwF">electron microscope</a> at the University of Toronto in the late 1930s with the help of university students Cecil Hall, <a href="/facts/James_Hillier/0Ss7acmK">James Hillier</a>, and Albert Prebus. He was made a fellow of the <a href="/facts/Royal_Society_of_Canada/betD1djj">Royal Society of Canada</a> and received the <a href="/facts/Henry_Marshall_Tory_Medal/PftIgfI7">Henry Marshall Tory Medal</a> in 1947. He was a member of the <a href="/facts/National_Research_Council_of_Canada/MXCsvmvD">National Research Council of Canada</a> and worked on <a href="/facts/Radar/jk9BTbFA">radar</a> research and training during <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>. Burton died in <a href="/facts/Toronto/cnXH7881">Toronto</a> in 1948. There is now an award given in his name by the Electron Microscopy Society of America (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110319105103/http://www.microscopy.org/awards/past.cfm#burton">https://web.archive.org/web/20110319105103/http://www.microscopy.org/awards/past.cfm#burton</a>). </p> <ul><li><a href="http://www.rsc.ca/index.php?page=citations_tory&lang_id=1&page_id=146#TOC29">Biography</a> from the Royal Society of Canada on the award of the Henry Marshall Tory Medal, (accessed 2005-12-21).</li></ul>