Sir Marcus 'Mark' Laurence Elwin Oliphant, AC, KBE, FRS[1] (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played a fundamental role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and also the development of the atomic bomb.[2]

Sir Mark Oliphant
Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant (1939)
Lahir(1901-10-08)8 Oktober 1901
Kent Town, Adelaide, Australia
Meninggal14 Juli 2000(2000-07-14) (umur 98)
Canberra, Australia[1]
Tempat tinggalAustralia
UK
U.S.
KebangsaanAustralian
AlmamaterUniversity of Adelaide
Cambridge University
Dikenal atasCo-discovery of deuteron, triton, helium-3
PenghargaanHughes Medal (1943), Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Karier ilmiah
InstitusiLawrence Berkeley Laboratory
University of Birmingham
Australian National University
Pembimbing akademikErnest Rutherford
Mahasiswa doktoralErnest William Titterton

During his retirement, Oliphant was appointed as the Governor of South Australia by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Premier Don Dunstan. He assisted in the founding of the Australian Democrats party, and he was the chairman of the meeting in Melbourne in 1977 at which the political party was launched.[3]

Referensi

  1. ^ a b c DOI:10.1098/rsbm.2001.0022
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  2. ^ http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v54/i7/p73_s2 Richard H. Dalitz (2001) Marcus Laurence Elwin ‘Mark’ Oliphant, Physics Today July 2001, page 73
  3. ^ Oliphant M Opening Address, Australian Democrats' First National Conference, Canberra, 16 February 1980

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Jabatan pemerintahan
Didahului oleh:
Major-General Sir James Harrison
Governor of South Australia
1971–1976
Diteruskan oleh:
Sir Douglas Nicholls

Templat:Governors of South Australia