Frederick John Marrion Stratton
| F. J. M. Stratton | |
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| Born | 16 October 1881 Edgbaston |
| Died |
2 September 1960 (aged 78) Cambridge |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom |
| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1910–1945 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| Battles/wars |
World War I World War II |
| Awards |
Territorial Decoration Officer of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order |
Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick John Marrian Stratton DSO OBE TD DL FRS PRAS (16 October 1881 – 2 September 1960) was a British astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer.
The youngest of six sons and two daughters, Stratton was born at Edgbaston in Birmingham, to Stephen Samuel Stratton, a music critic and historian, and Mary Jane Marrian. He remembered Dvorak and Ebenezer Prout visiting his father. In 1891, he received a scholarship to King Edward's Grammar School in Five Ways, Birmingham, advanced to Mason College in 1897 (which later became the University of Birmingham) and won an entrance scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1900, entering the university in October 1901. He took a London BA (External) in Greek, Latin and maths in 1903, and graduated in 1904 with the distinction of Third Wrangler in Part I of the Mathematical Tripos (Arthur Eddington, later Sir Arthur, was Senior Wrangler that year). He was placed in Class I, Division II of the second part of the Tripos the following year, also receiving the Tyson Medal in astronomy and an Isaac Newton Studentship. In 1906 he won a Smith's Prize and was elected a Fellow of his college, which he remained until his death.
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