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Joseph Rotblat

1908 - 2005

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Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) 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. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Rotblat is the 215th most popular physicist (down from 168th in 2019), the 125th most popular biography from Poland (down from 118th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Physicist.

Joseph Rotblat is most famous for being a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1995. He was awarded the prize for his work in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Joseph Rotblat ranks 215 out of 851. Before him are Edward Mills Purcell, James Cronin, Francesco Maria Grimaldi, David Lee, Pyotr Kapitsa, and Yoichiro Nambu. After him are Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, Robert H. Goddard, Melvin Schwartz, Roy J. Glauber, and Ralph Asher Alpher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Joseph Rotblat ranks 35. Before him are Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Ilya Frank, Aden Adde, Michael DeBakey, Franz Stangl, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. After him are Nelson Rockefeller, Manoel de Oliveira, Alfred Hershey, Willard Libby, David Lean, and Victor Weisskopf. Among people deceased in 2005, Joseph Rotblat ranks 24. Before him are Zhao Ziyang, Saul Bellow, Sister Lúcia, Kenzō Tange, Anne Bancroft, and Jack Kilby. After him are Ernst Mayr, Zdzisław Beksiński, Ezer Weizman, Aslan Maskhadov, Ed McBain, and Pat Morita.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Joseph Rotblat ranks 125 out of 1,694. Before him are Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Pola Negri (1897), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Fred Zinnemann (1907), and Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793). After him are Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), Kurt Daluege (1897), Alexandre Colonna-Walewski (1810), and Władysław Gomułka (1905).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Poland

Among physicists born in Poland, Joseph Rotblat ranks 9. Before him are Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), Otto Stern (1888), Rudolf Clausius (1822), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), and Klaus von Klitzing (1943). After him are Hagen Kleinert (1941), Leopold Infeld (1898), Friedrich Ernst Dorn (1848), Vladimir Chelomey (1914), Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803), and Max Abraham (1875).

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