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18. Juli 2000 · Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant was born in Adelaide in South Australia on Oct. 10, 1901. He graduated with honors from Adelaide University in 1927 and received a Ph.D. from Trinity College at ...
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. As the family grew, it moved from one house to another. Mark particularly enjoyed living in the village ...
14. Juli 2000 · Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" 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. Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Oliphant graduated from the ...
Oliphant returned to Australia in 1950 and held research chairs at the Australian National University, Canberra, until his retirement in 1967.Hydrogen, the simplest of all atoms, normally has a nucleus of a single proton, but in 1932 Harold Urey had discovered a heavier form that he called deuterium, with a nucleus consisting of a proton and a neutron. The enlarged nucleus became known as the ...
Sir Marcus (Mark) Laurence Elwin Oliphant. Born at Kent Town, Adelaide, Mark Oliphant studied physics at the University of Adelaide in 1919. To finance his university studies, Oliphant initially worked in the South Australian Public Library, but later took up a cadetship in the Physics Department. Oliphant graduated with a BSc, First Class ...
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant (known as Sir Mark Oliphant) is the eldest of five sons and was born in 1901 in Kent Town, near Adelaide, South Australia. His father was a civil servant and his mother was an artist. Oliphant was interested in pursuing a career in medicine or chemistry, and in 1919 began studying at the University of Adelaide. However, his physics teacher,
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin (Mark) Oliphant (1901–2000) by John Carver. Mark Oliphant, by Jack Mulligan, 1962. State Library of New South Wales, 13415. Sir Mark Oliphant, who died on 14 July, founded the Research School of Physical Sciences at the ANU and ...
