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Mark Oliphant
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Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant 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
Oliphant in 1939
Oliphant in 1939
The Cavendish Laboratory was the home of some of the great discoveries in physics. It was founded in 1874 by the Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish was his
The Cavendish Laboratory was the home of some of the great discoveries in physics. It was founded in 1874 by the Duke of Devonshire (Cavendish was his family name), and its first professor was James Clerk Maxwell.
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory, 1926
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory, 1926
The Poynting Physics building (right) at the University of Birmingham. Its mode of construction helped give rise to the phrase "redbrick university".
The Poynting Physics building (right) at the University of Birmingham. Its mode of construction helped give rise to the phrase "redbrick university".
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. He is often called the "father of the atomi
Mark Oliphant
…Oliphant then travelled to Berkeley, where he met his friend Lawrence on 22 September, giving him a copy of the Frisch–Peierls memorandum. Lawrence had Robert Oppenheimer check the figures, bringing him into the project for the first time. Oliphant found another ally in Oppenheimer, and he not only managed to convince…
Oppenheimer in 1944
Oppenheimer in 1944
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Oppenheimer in the Harvard University yearbook, 1926
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes's Laboratory in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1927. Oppenheimer is in the middle row, second from the left.
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff, including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walt
University of California Radiation Laboratory staff, including Robert R. Wilson and Nobel prize winners Ernest Lawrence, Edwin McMillan, and Luis Walter Alvarez, on the magnet yoke for the 60-inch (152 cm) cyclotron, 1938. Oppenheimer is the tall figure holding a pipe in the top row, just right of center.