Joseph Rotblat

1995 Nobel Peace Prize “ for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.”

Polish physicist who jointly shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 with his organisation, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, for their contributions towards nuclear disarmament. He was one of the founding members, secretary-general and eventually president of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international body that works on problems of international safety/security and development. Mr. Rotblat worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and became a physics professor at the University of London. A vocal critic of nuclear weapons, he changed gears after World War II to focus his work on medical physics instead.

Mr. Rotblat co-wrote an op-ed piece on nuclear disarmament with IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei for the February 2004 edition of the Financial Times. (b.1908 – d.2005)