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Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant 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.
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Born 8 October 1901 · Died 14 July 2000 · Q727443
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2020· 2 entries
Published “Array programming with NumPy” in Nature — cited 23,677 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Died 2000-07-14.
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1987· 1 entry
And he became an advocate for voluntary euthanasia
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1981· 1 entry
That "Sir Mark Oliphant warned the Dunstan Government of the 'grave dangers' of appointing an Australian Aborigine, Sir Douglas Nicholls, to succeed him as South Australia's Governor"
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1979· 1 entry
Won ANZAAS Medal (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (1977).
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1974· 1 entry
Won James Cook Medal (1974).
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1971· 1 entry
Career landmark: Governor of South Australia (1971–1976).
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1967· 1 entry
But was appointed Governor of South Australia on the advice of the premier, Don Dunstan
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1964· 1 entry
And was appointed Professor of Ionised Gases
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1963· 1 entry
The HPG was intended to be the power source for a synchrotron, but this was not built
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1961· 1 entry
Won Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1960).
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1959· 3 entries
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1959).
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And was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1977 "for eminent achievement and merit of the highest degree in the field of public service and in service to the crown"
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When the Menzies government amalgamated it with the Canberra University College
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1955· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1955).
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Oliphant initiated the design and construction of a 500 megajoule homopolar generator (HPG), the world's largest
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1954· 2 entries
Announced that it had entered a period of consolidation, with a funding ceiling, ending the possibility of successful competition with universities in Europe and North America
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Teaming with David Martyn to overcome the obstacles that had frustrated previous attempts
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1953).
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1950· 1 entry
Returned to Australia as the first director of the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University
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1948· 1 entry
Won Faraday Medal (1948).
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1946· 1 entry
Won Rutherford Medal and Prize (1946).
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1943· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1943).
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1940· 1 entry
The Fall of France, and the possibility that Britain might be invaded, prompted Oliphant to send his wife and children to Australia
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1938· 1 entry
Oliphant became involved with the development of radar, then still a secret
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1937· 1 entry
To become the Poynting Professor of Physics at the University of Birmingham
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1935· 1 entry
Oliphant and Ellis both replaced him as Rutherford's assistant director for research
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1934· 1 entry
Cockcroft arranged for Oliphant to become a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, which paid about £600 a year
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1933· 2 entries
The Cavendish Laboratory received a gift from the American physical chemist Gilbert N
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Blackett discovered tracks in his cloud chamber that confirmed the existence of the positron and revealed the opposing spiral traces of positron–electron pair production
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1932· 1 entry
And 1933, the scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory made a series of ground-breaking discoveries
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1927· 1 entry
On the strength of the research he had done on mercury, and went to England where he studied under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory
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1925· 2 entries
Oliphant heard a speech given by the New Zealand physicist Sir Ernest Rutherford, and he decided he wanted to work for him – an ambition that he fulfilled by earning a position at the Cavendish Laboratory at the Universi
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Worked with Oliphant to produce two papers in 1927 on the properties of mercury, "The Problem of the Surface Tension of Mercury and the Action of Aqueous Solutions on a Mercury Surface" and "Adsorption of Gases on the Su
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1922· 1 entry
Studied at University of Adelaide (1922).
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1921· 1 entry
And then did honours in 1922, supervised by Grant
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1919· 1 entry
Oliphant began studying at the University of Adelaide
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-10-08.
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