Background
OLIPHANT, Mark Laurence Elwin was born on October 8, 1901 in Adelaide, Australia. Son of Harold George Oliphant and Beatrice Fanny Tucker.
OLIPHANT, Mark Laurence Elwin was born on October 8, 1901 in Adelaide, Australia. Son of Harold George Oliphant and Beatrice Fanny Tucker.
Adelaide University, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Fellow, Royal Society 1931- Lecturer and Fellow, Saint John"s College 1934. Assistant Director Research, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 1935. Professor, and Director of Department, of Physics Birmingham University 1937-1950, Vice-Principal September 1948-1949.
Director of post-graduate Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University 1950-1963.
Professor, of Particle Physics 1950-1964. President Australian Academy, of Sciences 1954-1957.
Government of South. Australia 1971-1976. Honorary Fellow, Saint John"s College, Cambridge 1952, Australian National University 1968-1971.
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Saint Andrews), Honorary Doctor of Science (Toronto, Flinders, Belfast, Melbourne, Birmingham, New South Wales, Australian National University and Adelaide).
Married Rosa Louise Wildbraham in 1925 (died in 1987).