Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005
Oral history interview with Joseph Rotblat, 1992-1993.
Interview with Rotblat about his career in nuclear physics research especially at the University of Liverpool and in the USA with Prof. Sir James Chadwick, photocopied letter from Professor K. J. Le Coteur, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University re construction of the Liverpool Synchrocyclotron, c1951-1955.
English physicist (nuclear physics). University of Liverpool, 1939-1949; University of London, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, 1950-1976. Went with James Chadwick to Los Alamos to work on the atomic bomb, but left before it was completed. In 1946 he co-founded the Atomic Scientists Association. In 1957 he founded the Pugwash Conference to serve as a forum for researchers devoted to abolishing nuclear weapons and finding peaceful solutions to international conflicts. In 1995, fifty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Chadwick, James, 1891-1974
Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005
University of Liverpool. Dept. of Physics.
Nuclear physics -- Research -- Great Britain.
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Physicists -- England.
King, Charles David. interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
University of Liverpool. Sydney Jones Library. Special Collections and Archives. P. O. Box 123, Liverpool L69 3DA