Mark Oliphant - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • 1937 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 1946 Invited to deliver the Rutherford Memorial Lecture
  • 1959 Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • 1977 Appointed Companion of the Order of Australia
  • Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences
  • Elected President of the Australian Academy of Sciences


  • Statue on North Terrace

  • Different angle, different lighting

  • Text on the statue

  • Plaque on the Jubilee 150 Walkway

  • Canberra Homopolar Generator (artwork)

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