Mark Oliphant

“I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.”

“Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.”

“I worked with him for ten years until he died and it was the most wonderful time of my life.”

“It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.”