About Peter A. Butler
Born 1949. Peter A. Butler is a physicist.
Peter Anthony Butler (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.
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