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)."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.
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.L. P. Gaffney, P. A. Butler u.a., Studies of pear-shaped nuclei using accelerated radioactive beams, Nature, Band 497, 2013, S. 199-204, AbstractHamish Johnston, Nuclear physics goes pear-shaped, Physics World, 8. Mai 2013
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