who is he?
An Australian physicist and humanitarian.
Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant, (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) 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.
during world war ii the manhattan project was the name of the plan to To develop nuclear weapons. name an element that was used in making these weapons. Uranium. what type of weapons are the ones mentioned above? It is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb). what is the latter reaction mentioned here? It is a reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei are combined to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles. who was the first to experiment with this? Mark Oliphant.
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Mark Oliphant [SEP] Introduction
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin "Mark" Oliphant, (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) 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. 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 strength of the research he had done on mercury, and went to England, where he studied under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. There, he used a particle accelerator to fire heavy hydrogen nuclei (deuterons) at various targets.