(Foundation) President of the Australian Academy of Science 1955 Invited to deliver the Bakerian Lecture by the Royal Society 1955 Invited to deliver the Rutherford Memorial Lecture by the Royal Society 1956 Awarded Galathea Medal by King Frederick IX of Denmark 1959 Created Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1961 Awarded Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture 1976 Inducted as first Honorary Fellow and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1977 Appointed Companion of the Order of Australia Bibliography See also Oliphant brothers Notes References Further reading External links Video interview. 1901 births 2000 deaths Scientists from Adelaide Australian physicists Australian nuclear physicists Accelerator physicists Companions of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Governors of South Australia Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Manhattan Project people Radar pioneers University of Adelaide alumni Australian Fellows of the Royal Society Academics of the University of Birmingham Australian National University faculty Presidents of the Australian Academy of Science People associated with the nuclear weapons programme of the United Kingdom Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering People educated at Adelaide High School