John Bourke Dainton FRS is a British physicist, and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics, at University of Liverpool.
[1] Dainton was awarded the Max Born Prize in 1999.
His father was Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton.
He was founding director of the Cockcroft Institute.
[2] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002[3] and in 2018 he became Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.