Ann Horton

Ann Catherine Horton ( Davies, 7 April 1894 – 15 July 1967) was a British physicist and academic who was the first woman to be appointed to the lecturing staff of the Cavendish Laboratory. and was later promoted to Staff Lecturer. In 1921, their work called into question the conclusions drawn from the Franck–Hertz experiment, leading to an exchange of correspondence with James Franck that eventually concluded with all participants agreeing that the Franck–Hertz results had been correct.

In 1922 she received the Ellen Richards Research Grant from the Association to Aid Scientific Research by Women.

From 1935 she was a fellow and lecturer in physics at Newnham College, Cambridge,

Later life and legacy She died in Cambridge on 15 July 1967. In 1968, Cambridge founded the Ann Horton Visiting Research Fellowship at her bequest.