Nuclear Physics Research Group

Nuclear Physics has a long history at the University of Birmingham with many notable nuclear physicists. A few of these pioneers in Birmingham's past include:

• Gerry Brown
• Bill Burcham: author of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Burcham W E and Jobes M (Longman Scientific and Technical 1995)
• Brian England
• John Heaver Fremlin
• Otto Robert Frisch
• G.W Greenlees
• J.A.R. Griffith
• Jasper McKee
• Philip Burton Moon
• Marcus Oliphant
• Rudolf Peierls
• G.J. Pyle
• Tony Skyrme
• Y.C. Tang
• John Walker

The nuclear physics group is currently lead by Martin Freer. Past heads of group in reverse chronological order are:

• Garry Tungate
• John Nelson
• George Morrison
• William Burcham

There is a history of the Nuffield cyclotron at Birmingham.
An introduction to nucleosynthesis can be found here.