Peter Butler

FRS FInstP
Born
Peter A. Butler

(1949-11-22) 22 November 1949 (age 74)
AwardsInstitute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool
CERN
On-Line Isotope Mass Separator
Websitewww.liverpool.ac.uk/physics/staff/peter-butler

Peter Anthony Butler FRS FInstP (born 22 November 1949) is a Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".[2]

He was educated at Borden Grammar School, King's College London (BSc) and the University of Liverpool (PhD, 1974).[3]

His research area is experimental nuclear physics, especially structure of heavy nuclei. He led a group at ISOLDE at CERN who discovered 2013 nuclei with permanent octupole form (pear-shaped).[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Peter A. Butler publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  2. ^ Anon (2015). "Professor Peter Butler FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24.
  3. ^ "Butler, Prof. Peter Anthony, (born 22 Nov. 1949), Professor of Physics, since 1999 and Senior Research Fellow, since 2015, University of Liverpool." WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 1 Dec. 2019; Accessed 7 Dec. 2019.
  4. ^ L. P. Gaffney, P. A. Butler u.a., Studies of pear-shaped nuclei using accelerated radioactive beams, Nature, Band 497, 2013, S. 199-204, Abstract
  5. ^ Hamish Johnston, Nuclear physics goes pear-shaped, Physics World, 8. Mai 2013
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