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Journal Article

Author
Binnie, Anna
Title
Oliphant, the Father of Atomic Energy
In
Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Imprint
vol. 139, Royal Society of New South Wales, 2006, pp. 11-22
Url
https://royalsoc.org.au/images/pdf/journal/139_Binnie2.pdf
Subject
Chronological Classification 1901- Natural Sciences Physical Sciences
Abstract

Sir Marcus Oliphant, perceived by several generations of Australians as the kindly public face of Australian physics, maybe regarded as the individual who introduced the concept of anatomic bomb to the World. Oliphant did not discover fission, nor did he work on the fission process, but he was responsible for bringing together the people and the information required for the development of both the atomic bomb and civil atomic energy. Yet he was a man noted later for speaking out publicly against nuclear weapons, so how can these two statements be reconciled?

Source
Cohn 2008

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