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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 472,831 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 25 in 2019). Mark Oliphant is the 643rd most popular physicist (down from 634th in 2019), the 206th most popular biography from Australia (up from 221st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Australian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Mark Oliphant ranks 643 out of 717. Before him are Barys Kit, Lee Smolin, Paul Peter Ewald, Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Edward Condon, and Leonid Sedov. After him are Zoltán Lajos Bay, César Lattes, Nikolay Umov, Tom Kibble, Bruno Zumino, and Shoichi Sakata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Mark Oliphant ranks 246. Before him are Frankie Genaro, Arthur Samuel, Heðin Brú, Gerald Finzi, Pyotr Novikov, and László Németh. After him are Aleksandr Andronov, František Halas, Modesto Denis, Paul Yü Pin, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, and Dorothy Hansine Andersen. Among people deceased in 2000, Mark Oliphant ranks 216. Before him are Alan Hovhaness, Nat Adderley, Alfred Bohrmann, Vladimir Bagirov, Arcadio López, and Jacques Laurent. After him are Tony Cliff, Marc Davis, Richard Mulligan, Lepo Sumera, Julius J. Epstein, and Annie Palmen.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Mark Oliphant ranks 206 out of 925. Before him are David Malet Armstrong (1926), Bob Daisley (1950), Ken Kavanagh (1923), Ken McGregor (1929), Costas Mandylor (1965), and Nathan Jones (1970). After him are Ruby Payne-Scott (1912), John Winter (1924), Teresa Palmer (1986), Mark Schwarzer (1972), Steven Bradbury (1973), and Robert May, Baron May of Oxford (1936).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Australia

Among physicists born in Australia, Mark Oliphant ranks 3. Before him are Lawrence Bragg (1890) and Alexander Prokhorov (1916). After him are Helen Quinn (1943).

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