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TitleWetherell, Alan Marmaduke: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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CitationDr. Wetherell obtained his Ph.D. at Liverpool University, where he presented a thesis concerned with a remeasurement of the ratio of radiative to mesic capture of negative pions by hydrogen. The result, now accepted as accurate, was nearly a factor of two higher than the one given by the only previous experiment, so removing an important discrepancy in low energy pion physics. At Liverpool he was also a partner in measurements of the muon g-factor (one order of magnitude of improvement) and of the radiative beta-decay of the pion (part of the evidence against tensor interaction).
As a Harkness Fellow at the California Institute of Technology he studied the photo-production of kaons and pions, bringing to light one of the first peripheral interactions to be recognised.
As a physicist at CERN he is working on very high energy proton scattering, which first revealed a shrinking of the diffraction pattern at high energies. This effect was much discussed theoretically in terms of the Regge pole representation of scattering processes.
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Wetherell, Alan Marmaduke: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA3635Wetherell; Alan Marmaduke (1932 - 1998)1932 - 1998
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