Kenneth James Le Couteur 1920–2011

Kenneth Le Couteur was the Foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University, internationally recognised for his contributions to the statistical model of excited nuclei and to particle accelerators.

Kenneth James Le Couteur was born in St Helier, Jersey, on 16 September 1920 and died in Canberra on 18 April 2011. He had a distinguished career as a theoretical physicist in the United Kingdom and in Australia as the Foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics in the Research School of Physical Sciences of the Australian National University. He was internationally recognised for his significant contributions to the statistical model of excited nuclei and the extraction of beams from proton synchrocyclotron accelerators.

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This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 23(2), 2012. It was written by B. A. Robson, Department of Theoretical Physics, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University.