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Joseph Rotblat

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Polish-born British-naturalised physicist

United KingdomScientistsLived 1908 to 2005 · aged 96
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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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Awards 8

1999Jamnalal Bajaj Award
1995Nobel Peace Prize
1992Albert Einstein Peace Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta

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Country
United Kingdom
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 2005 · aged 96
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31 languages

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