Retirement
Titterton officially retired in 1981, but retained a position as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Nuclear Physics of the Australian National University. He divorced in 1986, and was injured seriously in a car accident, which required him to use a wheelchair full-time. He died on 8 February 1990.
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