Name Alan Astbury | Role Physicist Died 2014, Victoria, Canada | |
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Notable awards Rutherford Medal and PrizeFellow of the Royal Society of CanadaFellow of the Royal Society |
Alan Astbury FRS (1934–2014) was a Canadian physicist, professor emeritus at University of Victoria, and was director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF) laboratory.
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Research and career

He led a group at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory who confirmed the existence of the W particle. He was president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Honours and awards
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