| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 347 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005.
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Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005 fast |
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Rotblat, Joseph 1908-2005 gnd |
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Nuclear physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Nuclear physicists -- Poland -- Biography
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Pacifists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Nobel Prize winners -- Great Britain -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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Nobel Prize winners
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Nuclear physicists
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Pacifists
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Great Britain
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191632938 |
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0191632937 |
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1283804417 |
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9781283804417 |
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