Vice-Chancellor pays tribute to Sir Mark
Monday, 17 July 2000
亚洲色吧 University 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 Australian science," she said. "He made an enormous contribution as a physicist and a science administrator and was among 亚洲色吧's University'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 亚洲色吧 University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1923. He went on to Cambridge University and later became the first Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University.
After an interval of nearly 50 years, he resumed his association with 亚洲色吧 University in 1971 upon his appointment as Governor of South Australia and Visitor of the University.
Professor O'Kane said t