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Joseph Rotblat

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Also known as Sir Joseph Rotblat

Polish-born British-naturalised physicist

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Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist born in Warsaw in 1908 and died in London in 2005. He held citizenship in the United Kingdom and Poland. Rotblat was educated at the University of Warsaw, the University of Liverpool, and the University of London. His professional career included work at the University of Edinburgh and the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers. He participated in the Manhattan Project and specialized in high energy nuclear physics and nuclear physics.

Rotblat received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Jamnalal Bajaj Award, and the Albert Einstein Peace Prize. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He spoke English and was recognized in the Royal Society, Nobel Peace, and American Academy Arts Sciences collections.

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Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist.

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  • The Strangest Dream — Self2009
  • Väter der tausend Sonnen — Self - Interviewee1990

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Peace Prize1995

    “for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Józef
Gender
male
Citizenship
Poland
Place of birth
Warsaw
Place of death
London
Occupation
physicist
Educated at
University of London
Employer
University of Edinburgh
Languages spoken
English language
Participant in
Manhattan Project
Field of work
nuclear physics
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Josef Rotblat ID badge.png
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member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Joseph Rotblat
date of birth
1908-11-04
date of death
2005-08-31
name in native language
Józef Rotblat
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

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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