Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS
(1908-2005)
Knight Commander of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Founder of the Pugwash Conferences, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (from 1995)
Died aged 96
Wikidata WikipediaSir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS (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 that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb in 1942. 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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Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS (1908-2005) One of Poland's finest sons worked here Co-Founder of the Pugwash Conferences Nobel Peace Prize 1995
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