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unusual facts about Mark Oliphant


Kevin Downard

He convened and chaired the Sir Mark Oliphant Conference on Proteomics in 2003 and the biennial mass spectrometry conference (ANZSMS22, 2009), and led and co-ordinated the first proteomics course at Sydney.


Harry Boot

His professor Mark Oliphant had seen the klystron at Stanford University but it produced insufficient power to be useful as a radar transmitter.

Maurice Wilkins

He studied physics, within the Natural Sciences Tripos, and received a B.A. Mark Oliphant who was one of Wilkin's tutors at St. John's had been appointed to the Chair of Physics at the University of Birmingham, and had appointed John Randall to his staff.


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