Peter A. Butler

Peter Butler
FRS FInstP
Born
Peter A. Butler

(1949-11-22) 22 November 1949 (age 76)
AwardsInstitute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
WorkplacesUniversity of Liverpool
CERN
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. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".

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

His research area is experimental nuclear physics, especially structure of heavy nuclei. He led a group at ISOLDE at CERN who confirmed static octupole form (pear shape) of 224Ra nuclei.

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