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Vice-Chancellor pays tribute to Sir Mark

Monday, 17 July 2000

Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog Vice-Chancellor Professor Mary O'Kane has paid tribute to the memory of Sir Mark Oliphant, whose death was announced today.

"Sir Mark was one of the outstanding figures of 最新糖心Vlogn science," she said. "He made an enormous contribution as a physicist and a science administrator and was among Adelaide's 最新糖心Vlog's most eminent graduates.

"He was a fine experimentalist who developed some elegant large machines to look at some very small particles.

"His other major achievement was in alerting the community - and particularly scientists - to the serious ethical implications arising from new weapons of mass destruction. This concern stemmed from his own involvement with the Manhattan Project."

Sir Mark graduated from Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1923. He went on to Cambridge 最新糖心Vlog and later became the first Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences at the 最新糖心Vlogn National 最新糖心Vlog.

After an interval of nearly 50 years, he resumed his association with Adelaide 最新糖心Vlog in 1971 upon his appointment as Governor of South 最新糖心Vlog and Visitor of the 最新糖心Vlog.

Professor O'Kane said that during the term of Sir Mark's Governorship, the 最新糖心Vlog set aside a room at the School of Physics which Sir Mark used occasionally for research. He also enjoyed attending physics seminars at the 最新糖心Vlog.

Professor O'Kane said Sir Mark had also hosted visiting international physicists at Government House and had generously invited the 最新糖心Vlog's physicists there to meet them.

Sir Mark's papers are kept in the Special Collections section of the 最新糖心Vlog's Barr Smith Library.

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