Mark Oliphant
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label: Марк Лоуренс Оліфант @uk
label: 马克·奥利芬特 @zh
label: مارك أوليفانت @ar
label: Олифант, Марк @ru
label: Marcus Oliphant @fr
label: マーク・オリファント @ja
doctoral students: Ernest Titterton
doctoral students: Alan Howard Ward
doctoral advisor: Ernest Rutherford
subject: Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham
subject: Category:Scientists from Adelaide
subject: Category:Radar pioneers
subject: Category:Manhattan Project people
subject: Category:1901 births
subject: Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University
subject: Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
subject: Category:University of Adelaide alumni
subject: Category:People educated at Unley High School
subject: Category:Presidents of the Australian Academy of Science
subject: Category:Australian nuclear physicists
subject: Category:Australian fellows of the Royal Society
subject: Category:People educated at Adelaide High School
subject: Category:People associated with the nuclear weapons programme of the United Kingdom
subject: Category:Australian physicists
subject: Category:Governors of South Australia
subject: Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
subject: Category:2000 deaths
subject: Category:Companions of the Order of Australia
subject: Category:Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
subject: Category:Accelerator physicists
known for: Co-discovery of tritium, helium-3 and nuclear fusion
known for: Development of microwave radar
honorific prefix: Sir
after: Douglas Nicholls
before: Major General Sir James Harrison
birth name: Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant
education: Trinity College, Cambridge
education: University of Adelaide
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known for: Helium-3
known for: Nuclear fusion
known for: Tritium
known for: Radar
doctoral student: Ernest Titterton
doctoral student: Alan Howard Ward
birth place: Adelaide
birth place: South Australia
death place: Australian Capital Territory
death place: Canberra
birth date: 1901-10-08
death date: 2000-07-14
birth place: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
death place: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
work institution: Cavendish Laboratory
work institution: Australian National University
work institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
work institution: University of Birmingham
thesis title: The Neutralization of Positive Ions at Metal Surfaces, and the Emission of Secondary Electrons
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portal: Australia
portal: History of science
portal: Biography
portal: Physics
portal: Nuclear technology
portal: South Australia