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Author Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-

Title Keeper of the nuclear conscience : the life and work of Joseph Rotblat / Andrew Brown.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and index.
Summary Biography of British scientist who grew up in Poland, studied nuclear physics, left the Manhattan Project during World War II, promoted peace and social responsbility, created the influential Pugwash Conferences, and shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.
Contents Growing up in Warsaw -- Liverpool -- Paradise denied -- The bitterness of victory -- Stepping off the atomic train -- Bart's, Bikini, and the BBC -- Remember your humanity -- Pugwash -- Of mice and Moscow -- Towards a test ban -- Eggheads and warheads -- Years of eclipse -- Latent progress -- Reaching for the impossible? -- An old man in a hurry.
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Subject Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005.
Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005.
Rotblat, Joseph.
Nuclear physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Nuclear physicists.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Nuclear physicists -- Poland -- Biography.
Poland.
Pacifists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Pacifists.
Nobel Prize winners -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners.
Genre/Form Biographie.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12- Keeper of the nuclear conscience. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 9780199586585 (DLC) 2011945225 (OCoLC)751831996
ISBN 9780191632938 (electronic book)
0191632937 (electronic book)
1283804417
9781283804417
9780199586585
0199586586