Joseph Rotblat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Rotblat

Polish-born British-naturalised physicist

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1908

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 31-Aug-2005

Profession: physicist

Nationality: Poland, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport".
Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended.
His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
A signatory of the 1955 Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973 and shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."