Frank Panton
Francis Harry Frank Panton CBE was a British military scientist, bomb disposal expert and amateur archaeologist who played a key role in the development of the Chevaline nuclear weapons system during the Cold War. He served as the Assistant Chief Nuclear Science Advisor to the British government, and was also heavily involved in military intelligence work in Berlin and Washington DC. Later, as the chairman of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust, he oversaw the discovery and preservation of numerous important archaeological artefacts in his home county of Kent.
Panton was born in Lincoln and educated at the Lincoln City School. During the Second World War, he joined the Royal Engineers, serving as a reconnaissance officer in the No.Bomb Disposal Company. In 1948, he was appointed MBE in recognition of his mine clearance and bomb disposal work. After being demobilized, he went to study chemistry at the University of Nottingham. He became the vicepresident of the National Union of Students, and visited the Soviet Union as a guest of state.
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