John Gatenby Bolton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Gatenby Bolton

British-Australian astronomer

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1922

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1993

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: United Kingdom, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

This article is on the astronomer John Bolton.
For other people named "John Bolton," see John Bolton (disambiguation). John Gatenby Bolton (5 June 1922 – 6 July 1993) was a British-Australian astronomer. Bolton's team at the CSIRO's Division of Radiophysics in 1949 was the first to identify radio sources as extragalactic, marking the beginning of extragalactic radio astronomy.