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Peter A. Butler
British physicist
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]