PHYSICIST

Mark Oliphant

1901 - 2000

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Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, (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 University of Adelaide in 1922. He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship in 1927 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Oliphant has received more than 497,731 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Mark Oliphant is the 720th most popular physicist (down from 643rd in 2019), the 253rd most popular biography from Australia (down from 206th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Mark Oliphant ranks 720 out of 851. Before him are Raymond Gosling, Tom Kibble, Brandon Carter, Lisa Randall, Arthur Wightman, and Peter Mark Roget. After him are Pief Panofsky, Roald Sagdeev, Nikolay Umov, John Joly, Howard P. Robertson, and Harvey Fletcher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Mark Oliphant ranks 285. Before him are Ivan Petrovsky, James Dunn, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Paul Fix, Joseph De Combe, and Åke Borg. After him are Whittaker Chambers, Endre Steiner, Pedro Benítez, Boris Chirkov, Helen Ferguson, and Ben Lyon. Among people deceased in 2000, Mark Oliphant ranks 265. Before him are Lewis Wilson, Joann Lõssov, Kazimierz Brandys, Marie Windsor, Henri Hérouin, and Paula Yates. After him are Richard Mulligan, Audun Boysen, Paul Van den Broeck, Vintilă Cossini, Victor Verschueren, and Larry Linville.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Mark Oliphant ranks 253 out of 1,143. Before him are Judy Amoore (1940), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), Stanley Bruce (1883), Lesley Turner Bowrey (1942), May Robson (1858), and Richard Norton (1950). After him are Emily Browning (1988), Cadel Evans (1977), Pat Cash (1965), Jai Courtney (1986), Nathan Jones (1970), and Poppy Montgomery (1972).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Australia

Among physicists born in Australia, Mark Oliphant ranks 4. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890), Alexander Prokhorov (1916), and Helen Quinn (1943).

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