Where did Oliphant study under Sir Ernest Rutherford?
University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory
University of Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stanford University
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Oliphant studied under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. He was one of Rutherford's most promising students, and he went on to make significant contributions to the field of nuclear physics.
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