| Citation | Litherland's distinguished largely for his researches in experimental nuclear structure physics and is largely responsible for the entry into standard practice of several experimental methods notably the Doppler-shift attenuation method for the determination of nuclear life times and the Litherland-Ferguson method of 180 degrees coincidence correlation for the determination of nuclear spins. Litherland's work has been done chiefly in the Chalk River laboratory of AECL and he has played a major role in building up the strength and international name of that laboratory in nuclear structure physics; he has also had a major share in its most significant discoveries in nuclear structure, particularly the very important recognition of rotational motion in light nuclei. |