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Dr William Keith Burton FRSE (12 October 1922 - 30 December 1996) was English electrical engineer and theoretical physicist notable, according to American physical chemist Robert Alberty, for the publication of his 1957 thermodynamics tables, the first-ever free energy tables for biochemical reactions. ==Life== see〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf〕 He was born in Manchester and attended Manchester Grammar School prior to studying Electrical Engineering at Manchester College of Technology. After graduating he gained a job with GEC at first Heywood then Wembley〔http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/burton_william.pdf〕 From 1945 until 1951 he was employed as a theoretical physicist with ICI Ltd, being seconded to Bristol university for the final 4 years, lecturing under Nevill Francis Mott and Herbert Fröhlich. From 1951 onwards he lectured in Natural Philosophy at Glasgow University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1958. He died at home, 11 Montrose Terrace, Milngavie near Glasgow on 30 December 1996. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Burton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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