Quotes from Portraits in Science interviews — Mark Oliphant
1901–2000 Australia
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I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.
Portraits in Science interviews (1994)
We were able to discover two new kinds of atomic species, one was hydrogen of mass 3, unknown until that time, and the other helium of mass 3, also unknown.
Portraits in Science interviews (1994)
Of course, we had no idea whatever that this would one day be applied to make hydrogen bombs. Our curiosity was just curiosity about the structure of the nucleus of the atom, and the discovery of these reactions was purely, as the Americans would put it, coincidental.
Portraits in Science interviews (1994)