Background
WALTON, Ernest Thomas Sinton was born on October 6, 1903 in Dungarvan, Company Waterford. Son of Reverend John Arthur Walton and Anne Elizabeth Walton (née Sinton).
WALTON, Ernest Thomas Sinton was born on October 6, 1903 in Dungarvan, Company Waterford. Son of Reverend John Arthur Walton and Anne Elizabeth Walton (née Sinton).
Student, Methodist College, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Master of Science, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Queen's University, Belfast. Doctor of Science (honorary), Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Ulster, Northern Ireland.
Doctor of Philosophy, Dublin City University.
Erasmus Smith's professor natural and experimental philosophy Trinity College, Dublin, 1947-1974, fellow emeritus, 1974-1995. Honorary fellow Institute Physics, London.
Royal Dublin Society 1981, Honorary Fellow Institute of Engineers of Ireland.
Married Winifred Isabel Wilson, 1934. 4 children.