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Peter Butler
FRS FInstP
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Peter A. Butler
22 November 1949 |
| Awards | Institute of Physics Ernest Rutherford Medal and Prize (2012) |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Liverpool CERN On-Line Isotope Mass Separator |
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 discovered 2013 nuclei with permanent octupole form (pear-shaped).
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