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Culture, history and society

Breaking boundaries: how the nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat won the Nobel Peace Prize

01 Oct 2022 Michael Banks

With the 2022 Nobel prizes due to be announced, Physics World editors look at the physicists who’ve won prizes in fields other than their own. Michael Banks examines how Joseph Rotblat bagged the Nobel Peace Prize

Joseph Rotblat
Nuclear fallout: physicist Joseph Rotblat campaigned for most of his life against the use of nuclear weapons. (Courtesy: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives)
Physics has an uneasy relationship with nuclear weapons. During the Second World War many physicists

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