Burton, Eli Franklin

(1879-1948)
Physicist/ Director of Physics Lab

Led team of researchers in the building of the first Electron Microscope in North America (1938)
Radioactivity of crude petroleum; physical properties of colloidal solutions

Founding member, Canadian Society for the Protection of Science and Learning http://books.google.ca/books?id=eIi2ciQE2PwC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=e.+f.+burton+university+of+toronto&source=bl&ots=PurD_OhlzI&sig=PjojG1i5CdJ138I5EejsG8iGm6o&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wZCCU8uoEsPJ8AGn24C4Dg&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=e.%20f.%20burton%20university%20of%20toronto&f=false

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