 A graduate of the University of Melbourne , Burhop was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship to study at the Cavendish Laboratory under Lord Rutherford . Under the supervision of Mark Oliphant , he investigated nuclear fusion . He produced a non @-@ relativistic theory of the Auger effect in 1935 , followed by a relativistic treatment the following year . He later wrote a monograph on the subject . He returned to the University of Melbourne as a lecturer in 1936 , and helped Professor Thomas Laby build up the physics department there . 
