Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 347 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Pacifists
2. Nuclear physicists
3. Nobel Prize winners
4. Pacifists > Great Britain > Biography
5. Nuclear physicists > Great Britain > Biography
6. Friedensbemühung
7. Rotblat, Joseph
8. Biography
9. Rotblat, Joseph, 1908-2005
10. Nobel Prize winners > Great Britain > Biography
11. Biographie
12. Poland
13. Kernwaffe
14. Great Britain
15. Nuclear physicists > Poland > Biography

Genre/Form

1. Biographie.
2. Biography.

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JSD 15-81

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and index.

Author

1. Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-

Title

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

Imprint

1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-328) and index.

LCCN

1. 2011945225

ISBN

1. 9780199586585
2. 0199586586

Research call number

1. JSD 15-81