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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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Jamnalal Bajaj Award1999
Nobel Peace Prize1995
Albert Einstein Peace Prize1992
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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United Kingdom
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1908 to 2005 · aged 96

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