Eli Franklin Burton OBE, FRSC (February 14, 1879 – July 6, 1948) was a Canadian physicist.
Burton was born in Green River, township of Pickering, Ontario, Canada.
From 1904 to 1906 he studied colloids with J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, writing an important monograph on the subject in 1938.
[1] He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and received the Henry Marshall Tory Medal in 1947.
There is now an award given in his name by the Electron Microscopy Society of America (https://web.archive.org/web/20110319105103/http://www.microscopy.org/awards/past.cfm#burton).