Awards & Winners

Joseph Rotblat

Date of Birth 04-November-1908
Place of Birth Warsaw
(Poland, Masovian Voivodeship, Warsaw Voivodeship - II RP)
Nationality Poland, United Kingdom
Also know as Sir Joseph Rotblat, Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS, Józef Rotblat
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Sir Joseph Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS was a British-naturalised Polish physicist. Rotblat's work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973. He shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for efforts toward nuclear disarmament.

Awards by Joseph Rotblat

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1995


Nobel Peace Prize
(for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms)