Bayes Norton Explained

Birth Date:September 23, 1903
Birth Place:Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, United States
Death Date:October 21, 1967 (aged 64)
Death Place:Gambier, Ohio, United States
Height:1.78m (05.84feet)
Weight:66kg (146lb)
Sport:Athletics
Event:200 m
Club:Yale Bulldogs, New Haven
Pb:200 m – 21.8 (1924)
Alma Mater:Yale University, University of Oxford
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Bayes Marshall Norton (September 23, 1903 – October 21, 1967) was an American sprint runner. In 1924 he finished second in the 200 m at the U.S. Olympic Trials and fifth at the 1924 Olympic Games.[1] He won a Rhodes Scholarship and in the late 1920s ran for the University of Oxford. He later became a professor of chemistry at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. As a government consultant he contributed to the Manhattan Project and to Rockets, Guns and Targets, an official U.S. Government history book on science during World War II.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bayes Norton . Olympedia . 16 September 2021.