Joseph Rotblat (1908-2005)

Awarded the Prize “for his efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics , in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.”

British physicist. Rotblat was born on November 4, 1908 in Warsaw, Pol. He received his M.A. from Free University of Pol in 1932, doctor of Physics at the University of Warsaw in 1938. From 1939 to 1944 he worked on atom bomb at University of Liverpool in Los Alamos. From 1945 to 1949 he was Director of Research in Nuclear Physics at Liverpool University. Since 1946 he has been British citizen. In 1950 he took his Ph.D. at the University of Liverpool D.Sc. at the University of London in 1953. From 1950 to 1976 he was Chief Physicist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. In 1988 he became President of the Pugwash Conferences. Rotblat died on August 31, 2005.
Major Works:
Nuclear Physics; Medical Physics Radiation Biology; Radi