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...weeks ago, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to British Physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs that he helped found to rid the world of atomic arms. Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, Paul Doty, will get to share in that prize...
...bombing of Hiroshima. "I felt angry, worried and fearful about the future of our civilization," he recalled at a news conference last week. Rotblat refocused his scientific attention on possible medical uses of nuclear reactions and radiation; he also began his lifelong commitment to nuclear disarmament. The Pugwash organization was considered especially influential during the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan began pushing his Star Wars program; it gave scientists an unofficial channel through which to discuss the tricky arms-reduction issues raised by Reagan's plan...
...bachelor who lives with his sister-in-law, Rotblat maintains a schedule that begins at his rather cluttered office at about 6 a.m. every day. Important as the Pugwash organization is to him, it is only a part of his arms-reduction work. He is also on the governing board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Despite having won the ultimate recognition of the Nobel, he is hardly ready to quit. Says Rotblat: "I see this honor not for me personally, but rather for the small group of scientists who have been working for 40 years...
...PUGWASH WINS PEACE PRIZE
British nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he helped found jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Rotblat, who resigned from the Manhattan Project before it developed the first atom bomb, started the Pugwash Conference to work toward the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Pugwash takes its name from the Nova Scotia fishing village where it was founded...