Józef Rotblat – polski współtwórca bomby atomowej i laureat Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla

• Authors: Jan Znajdek

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Józef Rotblat – a polish copcreator of an atomic bomb and a Peace Nobel Prize laureate

Abstracts

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The article describes the life of Józef Rotblat (1908–2005) – a Polish Nobel Prize laure ate who was of Jewish origin and had a British passport. He spent his childhood andadolescence in Warsaw, where he became a Master of Physics and later a PhD at Warsaw University. He was awarded a scholarship in London where he became a student, and later a colleague, of a world famous English Nobel laureate and physicist – James Chadwick. He was engaged in „Manhattan Project”, i.e. an American project of constructing an atomic bomb. He withdrew from it in 1944 when he realised what was the real intended use for the weapon. He received British citizenship in 1946. Year 1957 was a breaking point in his biography, since that year he, together with a famous English philosopher – Bertrand Russel, created a peace movement called Pugwash whose followers were scientists aiming at the liquidation of mass destruction weapons. In 1995, 50 years aer Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Józef Rotblat, together with the whole Pugwash movement, was awarded a Peace Nobel Prize. In 1998 he received British Knighthood.

Keywords

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Józef Rotblat; co-creator of an atomic bomb; Pugwash peace movement; the laureate of Peace Nobel Prize

• Publisher: Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie (PUNO) w Londynie
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe PUNO
• Year: 2019
• Pages: 197-206

Contributors

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Jan Znajdek

• PUNO w Londynie

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

1938579