Joseph Rotblat
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Joseph Rotblat was a Polish-born physicist who became a British citizen and dedicated much of his career to promoting nuclear disarmament and peace. His work highlighting the dangers of nuclear weapons and advocating for their elimination made him an influential voice in international efforts to prevent nuclear war.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1908
- Died
- 2005
- Works
- 75
Top works
- Proceedings of the forty-first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Beijing, China, 17-22 September 1991
- Towards a secure world in the twenty-first century
- Mir bez i︠a︡dernogo oruzhii︠a︡
- Pugwash
- History of the Pugwash conferences
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Acting · Warsaw, Poland
Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist.
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- The Strangest Dream — Self2009
- Väter der tausend Sonnen — Self - Interviewee1990
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- 3
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- 3
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Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS (Polish: Józef Rotblat; 4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became clear to him in 1944 that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb.
His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the 1955 Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973 and shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."
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1908 births2005 deaths20th-century British physicists20th-century Polish physicistsAcademics of the Medical College of St Bartholomew's HospitalAcademics of the University of EdinburghAcademics of the University of LiverpoolBritish agnosticsBritish anti–nuclear weapons activistsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish humanistsBritish Nobel laureates