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Mark Oliphant, Australian physicist, humanitarian and politician, Governor of South Australia (died 2000)

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Mark Oliphant

Australian physicist (1901–2000)

Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons.
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Governor of South Australia

Vice-regal representative

The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the monarch, currently King Charles III. The governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the governor-general of Australia at the national level. In…
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