Anne Thorne

Anne Thorne
Born
Anne Patricia Pery

(1928-10-03) 3 October 1928
Alma materSt Hugh's College, Oxford University
Spouse
(m. 1959; died 2004)
Children4
Parent(s)Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick
Angela Olivia Trotter
Scientific career
FieldsAtomic physics, spectroscopy, interferometry
InstitutionsHarvard University, Imperial College

Anne Patricia, Lady Thorne (born 3 October 1928) is a physicist specialising in atomic physics and spectroscopy. She is senior research fellow in physics and senior research investigator in the Department of Physics at Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine. She was the senior tutor for women students at Imperial College, and played a leading role in starting the Imperial College Day Nursery.