Christopher Hinton
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Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (12 May 1901, Tisbury, Wiltshire, – 22 June 1983, London) was a British nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale commercial nuclear power station.
Hinton graduated from Trinity College in Cambridge University with first class honours.
In 1965 he was made a life peer as Baron Hinton of Bankside, of Dulwich in the County of London.
[edit] Awards and Achievements
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1951
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1957
- Fellow of Trinity College, 1957
- Fellow of the Royal Society 1954
- President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1966
- Foreign Associate, National Academy of Engineering, 1976
- Order of Merit, 1976
- Chancellor of the University of Bath 1980-83
[edit] External links
- http://books.nap.edu/books/0309043492/html/135.html
- http://libserv.aip.org:81/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!183~!0&profile=icos#focus
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