Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- 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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See also
- Australian Atomic Energy Commission, Commonwealth of Australia (1952 - 1981)
- Baxter, John Philip (1905 - 1989)
- Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley (1911 - 1980)
- Casey, Richard Gavin Gardiner (1890 - 1976)
- Industrial Atomic Energy Policy Committee, Commonwealth of Australia (1949 - 1952)
- Madsen, John Percival Vissing (1879 - 1969)
- Messel, Harry (1922 - 2015)
- Rivett, Albert Cherbury David (David) (1885 - 1961)
- White, Frederick William George (1905 - 1994)