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- ↑ Anon (2015). "Professor Peter Butler FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2019-04-24.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Hamish Johnston, Nuclear physics goes pear-shaped, Physics World, 8. Mai 2013
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