he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In 1972, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1991. Dainton was awarded the Davy Medal in 1969 and the Faraday Medal in 1974. He was awarded the inaugural President's Medal of the Institute of Physics in 1998. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (DSc) by the University of Bath in 1970. Dainton was knighted in 1971 and received a life peerage as Baron Dainton, of Hallam Moors in the County of South Yorkshire on 14 February 1986. Marriage and children Whilst at Cambridge Dainton met (and in 1942 married) a zoology research student, Barbara Hazlitt Wright (died 12 April 2009). They were married for 55 years and had a son and two daughters. Death Lord Dainton died in Oxford on 5 December 1997 at the age of 83. Selected publications Science: Salvation or Damnation (1971) Doubts and Certainties: A Personal Memoir of the 20th Century (2000) References Dainton, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Life peers Dainton, Frederick Stanley Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Stanley Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Stanley Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Stanley Dainton, Baron Dainton, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Baron Faraday Lecturers Presidents of the British Science Association Social Democratic Party (UK) politicians Presidents of the Association for Science Education Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Dr Lee's Professors of Chemistry Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Members of the American Philosophical Society Life peers created by Elizabeth II