Wade Allison (born 1941) is a British physicist who is Emeritus professor of Physics and Fellow of Keble College at Oxford University.
Author of Nuclear is for Life: A Cultural Revolution,[1] Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear [2], Fundamental Physics for Probing and Imaging [3] Wade Allison was educated at Rugby School and then at Trinity College, Cambridge as an Open Exhibitioner in Natural Science.
He was elected to a Research Lecturership (JRF) at Christ Church, Oxford in 1967 and a Fellow of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
During his career he served periods as associate chairman of the Oxford Physics Department, senior tutor and sub-warden of Keble College.
In earlier years he developed new experimental methods with their theory, and applied these in experiments on quarks at CERN and on neutrinos in the USA.