page_title: Francis Farley
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caption_attribution_description: English: Francis Farley presenting his romantic novel, Catalysed Fusion, which is a "true-to-life fantasy woven around particle physics" set in 1980s Geneva – "the city where nations meet and particles collide". Farley presented the book in the program "Literature in Focus" 16th April 2013 in the CERN Library.
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  Francis James Macdonald Farley FRS was a British scientist. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and an honorary fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge. Farley obtained his PhD from Cambridge in 1950.
  During World War II he designed and made the first X-band microwave radar with 100 ns pulse and a one degree beam which directed the 15" guns at Dover. It showed shells splashing around the target. He invented clutter reference Doppler radar which could see vehicles on land and was used in Italy. As a senior lecturer in Auckland University he was a NZ delegate to the 1955 UN conference in Geneva on "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy". During a year at Harwell in 1955 he measured the neutron yield from plutonium fission as a function of the incident neutron epithermal energy. From 1957 at CERN he measured the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in three successive experiments, inventing the muon storage ring. Accurate tests of special relativity at CERN. He participated in the follow up measurement at Brookhaven National Laboratory
  He started working on wave energy in 1976 and filed 14 patents in this area.
context_section_description: His publications include the Methuen monograph "Elements of Pulse Circuits" (1955) translated into French and Spanish and papers on particle physics, relativity, wave energy and cosmology.
  In 2012 he wrote a romantic novel, Catalysed Fusion, which illustrates life around the accelerators at CERN and in Geneva
  Farley signed more than 50 peer reviewed articles. His nuclear and particle physics related publications are indexed in INSPIRE-HEP
  The European Patent Office has registered 17 patents with Francis Farley as the inventor.
caption: Francis Farley presenting his novel "Catalysed Fusion" in the CERN Library.
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