Person Oliphant; Sir; Marcus Laurence Elwin (1901 - 2000) Oliphant Marcus Laurence Elwin Sir Mark 1901 - 2000 Australian Male Adelaide, South Australia 08/10/1901 19011008 Canberra, Australia 14/07/2000 20000714

Physicist Education: Unley High School; Adelaide High School; Adelaide University Career: Exhibitioner, Cambridge University (1927); Assistant Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1934?) and produced the first description of hydrogen fusion; Poynting Professor of Physics, Birmingham University (1937-1950); on mission to America (1941-1943); worked on Hiroshima bomb at Berkeley (1943-1945); first Scientific Advisor to the UN Atomic Energy Commission (1946); on Council to set up Australian National University (ANU); Director, Research School of Physical Sciences, ANU (1950-1963); Professor of Physics of Ionised Gases, Institute of Advanced Studies (1964-1967) Governor, South Australia (1971-1976); Founder member of the Pugwash group of scientists against nuclear weapons Honours: KBE 1959; Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) 1977 Memberships: Australian Academy of Sciences (Founder; President, 1954-1957) Son of Harold Oliphant and his wife Beatrice; married (1925) Rosa Wilbraham (died 1987) Royal Society roles: Council: 1946-1948 Medals and prizes: Hughes Medal 1943 Lectures: Bakerian 1955; Rutherford 1955 Fellow 06/05/1937 35 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Guardian, 18 July 2000; DT, 18 July 2000; Times, 18 July 2000; Independent 19 July 2000; AE Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2001 vol 47 pp 383-393, plate, by Brebis Bleaney FRS References: W E Burcham, 'The Cavendish High-Voltage Laboratory 1935-39' in NR 1999 vol 53 pp 121-134 Sir Mark Oliphant, 'Some Personal Recollections of Rutherford, the Man' in NR 1972-3 vol 27 pp 7-23 R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 B Lovell, 'The cavity magnetron in World War II: was the secrecy justified?' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 283 - 294 ©Godfrey Argent Studio International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-20410 8 Oct 1901 - 14 Jul 2000 NA4541 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 54772818-4c08-4fcf-aeb4-12bce3e66a48