Joseph Rotblat
Polish-born British-naturalised physicist · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1908 to 2005 · aged 96
Sir Joseph Rotblat 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.
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2005Died31 August 20051999Jamnalal Bajaj AwardAward1995Nobel Peace PrizeAward1992Albert Einstein Peace PrizeAward1908Born4 November 1908
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Lived 1908 to 2005 · aged 96