Oliphant

[ ol-uh-fuhnt ]

noun

1. Margaret Wilson, 1828–97, Scottish novelist.

Oliphant

/ ˈɒlɪfənt /

noun

1. OliphantSir Mark Laurence Elwin19012000MBritishAustralianSCIENCE: physicist Sir Mark Laurence Elwin. 1901–2000, British nuclear physicist, born in Australia

Example Sentences

The study's first authors include Vinci Au, who led the single cell genome sequencing in the Aparicio Lab, Dr. Michael Oliphant, who led the cell isolation in the Brugge Lab, and Dr. Marc Williams, who led the computational genome analysis in the Shah Lab.

From Science Daily

This is the era that inspired journalist James Oliphant’s obsession with atomic movies, an obsession that would lead him to create his Substack Nuclear Theater.

From Los Angeles Times

Musing on movies about the nuclear threat and broader Cold War issues, Oliphant taps into his years as an ’80s high school student who could not learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.

From Los Angeles Times

J. Baxter Oliphant for Pew Research Center: “Top tax frustrations for Americans: The feeling that some corporations, wealthy people don’t pay fair share”

From Slate

“I don’t mean to blow my own horn,” he told The Washington Post in 1982, “but between Johnny Carson’s monologues, the political cartoonists such as Herblock and Oliphant, and me, if we all decide what the hot subject in the country is, that’s what it is.”

From New York Times