Background
GARTON, William Reginald Stephen was born on March 7, 1912 in London. Son of William and Gertrude (née Thiel) Garton.
professor emeritus of spectroscopy
GARTON, William Reginald Stephen was born on March 7, 1912 in London. Son of William and Gertrude (née Thiel) Garton.
Sloane School, London, Chelsea Polytechnic and Imperial College, London.
Lecturer in Physics, Imperial College 1946-1954, Senior Lecturer 1954-1957, Reader 1957-1964, Professor, of Spectroscopy 1964-1969, Association Head, Department, of Physics 1970-1979, Senior Research Fellow since 1979, now Professor Emeritus. Honorary Fellow, Imperial College 1983. Association Harvard College Observatory since 1963.
Fellow Optical Society of America.
Emeritus Fellow, Leverhulme Trust 1987-1989. Honorary Doctor of Science (York University, Toronto) 1976.
Married 1st Margarita F. Callingham in 1940 (dissolved in 1976), 2nd Barbara Lloyd Jones in 1976.