Career
He is best known for his work associated with cold cathode glow discharge devices, and has published over a dozen papers and a book dealing with the subject. In 1956, Weston took leadership of a small group of physicists, investigating cold cathode tubes, which gained a reputation as one of the foremost research units in the field George Weston has a Master of Science degree and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.
George Weston was born in Catford, London, where he attended Saint Dunstans College but later moved with his family to Reigate, Surrey due to the school"s involvement in the World World War II evacuation program