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Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS, FAA, FTSE (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.
12 dic 2022 · Mark Oliphant also has a place in physics history. As Rutherford’s student-turned-colleague at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory, Oliphant had a hand in the discovery of tritium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen that proved vital to the later development of nuclear weapons.
28 set 2000 · The Australian physicist Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, who died on 14 July 2000, was the last of the ‘Rutherford Boys’ — the brilliant team who, under the leadership of Lord Rutherford ...
- Joseph Rotblat
- pugwash@qmw.ac.uk
- 2000
With the death of Professor Sir Mark Oliphant, the first President of the Australian Academy of Science, Australia lost one of its most distinguished scientists.
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant (1901-2000) was an Australian physicist who helped push the United States to create an atomic bomb program. Born in Adelaide, South Australia to a civil servant father and schoolteacher mother, he was the oldest of five boys. [1] .
Oliphant was its first President. The Oliphant Wing of the Physics Building at the University of Adelaide is the home of the High Energy Astrophysics Group. After retiring from the ANU in 1967, Oliphant became the Governor of South Australia in 1971.
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin (Mark) Oliphant (1901–2000), physicist, machine-builder, and governor, was born on 8 October 1901 at Kent Town, Adelaide, eldest of five sons of South Australian-born parents Harold George Oliphant, public servant, and his wife Fanny Beatrice Edith, née Tucker.
