oct 8, 1901 - Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant

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Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Oliphant graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1922. He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship in 1927 on the research he had done on mercury, and went to England, where he studied at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. There, he used a particle accelerator to fire heavy hydrogen nuclei (deuterons) at various targets. He also discovered that when the hydrogen nuclei deuterons reacted with each other, the particles that were released had far more energy than they started with.He was the oldest of five sons. Oliphant's father was a very religious man and he wanted his oldest son to be a priest, but Oliphant had always been more interested in gadgets and science than in religion.

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