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 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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.