Oliphant: The Australian Genius who Developed Radar and Showed Oppenheimer How to Build the Bomb

The extraordinary life of the true genius behind the atomic bomb, radar, and much more—a maverick Australian scientist who changed the course of history.

On August 6, 1945, the United States launched the world’s first nuclear attack on Japan. J. Robert Oppenheimer would be remembered as the father of the atomic bomb, but it was Australian physicist Sir Mark Oliphant and his laboratory who discovered how it could be built. Faced with Hitler’s race to develop atomic weapons, Oliphant shared h...