Robert Lyster Thornton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Lyster Thornton

American physicist

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Wootton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 28-Sep-1985

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Robert Lyster Thornton (29 November 1908 – 28 September 1985) was a British-Canadian-American physicist who worked on the cyclotrons at Ernest Lawrence's Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s.
During World War II he assisted with the development of the calutron as part of the Manhattan Project.
He returned to Berkeley in 1945 to lead the construction of the 184-inch (470 cm) cyclotron, and spent the rest of his career there.