Best known as a governor of South Australia, Sir Mark Oliphant was also a pioneering nuclear physicist, who became an outspoken anti-nuclear campaigner.
Known for ‘chromasonics’, laser kinetics and ‘sound and image’ presentations, the innovator’s artistic talents transcended painting, photography, film, theatre, stained glass, sculpture, computer graphics...
The term 'all-round sportsman' might have been coined for Victor York Richardson, who excelled at cricket, football, baseball, lacrosse, tennis and basketball.
Harold Hubert Salisbury (1915–1991), a career policeman and winner of the Queen’s Police medal in 1970, was recruited from Yorkshire to be South Australia’s police commissioner in 1972. In 1978 the ‘Salisbury Affair’ polarised South Australia’s community (roughly along party-political lines) and remains controversial.
Camel driver Bejah Dervish, highly-regarded for his part in the Calvert Scientific Exploring Expedition in 1896, became a familiar figure in South Australia’s far north.
One of the founders of the architectural practice of Woods Bagot, Edward Woods designed several of Adelaide’s prominent civic, ecclesiastical and educational buildings
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