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Oliphant, Marcus Laurence Elwin (1901 - 2000)

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Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science
 
[Repository details]
Title:Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant - Records
Reference:MS 31
Date Range:1953 - 1982
Description:Tape recording of 'Looking Back' a series of six programmes broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Corporation) in 1977; address entitled 'A Physicist's Concept of God' 1963; press-cuttings 1964, 1976; typescript of the Australian Broadcasting Commission programme 'Insight', no.354 on Oliphant 1971; 19 files relating to the Australian Academy of Science 1953-67; various reprints to 1982 [26 cm, MS 31].
Formats:Audio.
Quantity:0.26 m
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: 'Oliphant, Marcus Laurence Elwin - Ms 31', in Listing of Adolph Basser Library holdings, Australian Academy of Science, 1994, http://www.science.org.au/academy/basser/lists/ms031.txt.
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Barr Smith Library, Special Collections, The University of Adelaide
 
[Repository details]
Title:Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant - Records
Reference:92 04775p SR
Date Range:1896 - 1983
Description:Comprehensive set of personal records including personal and professional correspondence 1927-83; speeches and addresses 1954-83; scrapbooks 1971-76; photographs 1927-83; certificates, medals, commissions, warrants and plaques 1949-80; doctoral thesis 1930; lecture notes 1930-36, 1947; various records relating to his war-time radar and uranium enrichment work 1938-45; sound and visual records 1949, 1958, c1967, 1977; publications including newspaper articles 1936-82; notes and mementos; articles and addresses by other scientists 1956-75; notebooks, reprints and correspondence of Lord Rutherford collected by Oliphant for "Rutherford Recollections"; the records principally document his career as Director of the School of Physical Sciences at ANU 1950-63 and as Governor of South Australia 1971-76; overall dates 1896-1974 [about 15 m, 92/04775p Strongroom].
Formats:Artwork, Audio, Film and Photographs.
Quantity:15 m
Access:Available for reference
Online Finding Aid: Barr Smith Library, Papers of Sir Mark Oliphant, 2000, http://www.library.adelaide.edu.au/ual/special/oliphant.html.
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National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
 
[Repository details]
Title:Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant - Records
Reference:DeB 276
Date Range:1923 - 1967
Description:Oral history recording with Hazel de Berg 24 July 1967, c35 minutes, 12 page transcript [DeB 276]. See also the following oral history recordings by or about Oliphant [TRC 274 TAPE 14, TRC 720, TRC 721, TRC 726, TRC 777, TRC 777/3-7].
Formats:Audio.
Quantity:1 tape
Access:Available for reference
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