Alick Ashmore obituary

My father, Alick Ashmore, who has died aged 93, came from a family that was at the forefront of remarkable technological changes, from the era of the horse and cart to the age of particle accelerator rings.

As a young physics graduate Alick contributed to scientific developments in the second world war at the Royal Radar Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire. He went on to research sub-atomic particle physics, initially on the cyclotron particle accelerator with James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, at Liverpool University, in the 1950s.