Alan Astbury

Alan Astbury
Born	1934
Died	2014
Awards	Rutherford Medal and Prize Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow of the Royal Society
Academic work
Institutions	University of Victoria; director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility
Main interests	W particle.

Alan Astbury FRS (1934–2014)^[1] was a Canadian physicist, professor emeritus at University of Victoria,^[2][3] and was director of the Tri-Universities Meson Facility (TRIUMF) laboratory.^[4][5]

He led a group from the Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory who confirmed the existence of the W particle.^[6] He was president of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.^[7]

Honours and awards

• 2002 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics^[8]
• 1986 Rutherford Medal and Prize
• 1989 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• 1993 Fellow of the Royal Society of London

Works

• Fundamental Interactions: Proceedings of the 23rd Lake Louise Winter Institute, Editors Alan Astbury, Alexander Penin, Faqir Khanna, World Scientific, 2009, ISBN 978-981-4280-93-8
• Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on High Energy Physics: ICHEP '98, Editors Alan Astbury, David Axen, Jake Robinson, World Scientific, 1999, ISBN 9789810237721

References

1. "Alan ASTBURY". The Times Colonist.
2. http://www.sfu.ca/ceremonies/honorary_degrees/2006_Honorary_Degrees.html
3. "The Ring". uvic.ca.
4. "TRIUMF Images to Download". triumf.info.
5. Richard Keeler (5 February 2008). "A Productive Collaboration: TRIUMF & The University of Victoria" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-07-24.
6. "New Scientist". google.com.
7. "IUPAP: Prague 2006 Meeting Minutes". web.archive.org. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
8. "Press Releases". cap.ca. Retrieved 2015-07-24.

External links

• "Dr. Alan Astbury's honorary degree acceptance speech in 2006 at Simon Fraser University". April 8, 2009
• "Alan Astbury", Scientific Commons