| Joseph Rotblat  AKA Józef Rotblat
Born: 4-Nov-1908
Birthplace: Lodz, Poland
Died: 31-Aug-2005
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist, Activist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist The only scientist to quit the Manhattan Project on moral grounds. Wife: Tola Gryn (m. 1937, died in the Holocaust)
University: MA, Free University of Poland (1932)
University: Doctor of Physics, University of Warsaw (1938)
University: Liverpool University (1945-49)
University: PhD, University of Liverpool (1950)
Professor: University of London (1950-76)
University: DSc, University of London (1953)
Professor: University of Edinburgh (1975-76)
Professor: University of Penang, Malaysia (1977-78)
Manhattan Project (resigned 1944)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Honorary Foreign Member (1972)
Athenaeum Club (London)
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Co-Founder
Royal Society Fellow (1995)
World Health Organization Advisory Committee on Medical Research (1972-75)
World Health Organization Management Group (1984-90)
Hague Appeal for Peace Honorary Committee
Commander of the British Empire 1965
Knighthood 1998
Nobel Peace Prize 1995
Naturalized UK Citizen 1946
Stroke
Jewish Ancestry
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