Editing Mark Oliphant (section)

==Death==
On 14 July 2000, he died in [[Canberra]], at the age of 98.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s152880.htm |title=Sir Mark Oliphant dies |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=18 July 2000 |access-date=2 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222150420/http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s152880.htm |archive-date=22 February 2015 |url-status=live  }}</ref> His body was cremated.<ref name="odnb">{{cite ODNB|id=74397|title=Oliphant, Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin (1901–2000) |first=Brebis |last=Bleaney }}</ref> His daughter Vivian died from a brain tumour in 2008,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansards%2F2008-09-15%2F0109%22 |date=7 October 2017 |title=Ms Vivian Wilson |publisher=Parliament of Australia }}</ref> after his son Michael died from colon cancer in 1971.{{sfn|Cockburn|Ellyard|1981|p=267}}