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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access originally published online on November 26, 2008
Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2008 132(1):102-104; doi:10.1093/rpd/ncn291
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Joseph Rotblat: visionary for peace

Varti Vartanian

Varian Medical SystemsPalo Alto, CA, USA

Ralph H. Thomas

University of California (Retired) Moraga, CA, USA

Editors: R. Braun, R. A. Hinde, D. Krieger, H. Kroto and S. Milne
Authors: M. Atiyah, J. Bazire, R. Braun, S. I. Butcher, F. Calogero, A. M. Cetto, P. Cotta-Ramusino, K. Dae-jung, J. Dhanapala, F. Dyson, M. ElBaradei, J. Finney, M. Foot, J. Galtung, R. L. Garwin, M. S. Gorbachev, B. Halliday, J. Harris, C. R. Hill, R. Hinde, J. P. Holdren, J. R. Holt, D. Ikeda, F. Jerome, B. Kent, M. Konuma, D. Krieger, H. Kroto, M. A. Lebedev, M. C. Maguire, R. S. McCoy, T. Milne, M. Nalecz, G. Neuneck, J. Polanyi, M. Rees, D. Roche, J. Roblat, H. Sand, J. Stachel, J. Steinberger, M. B. M. Suh, M. S. Swaminathan and J. Williams
Published by: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany
ISBN: 978-3-527-409690-6, 355 pp (2008), US$55 (hard cover)

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Si vis pacem, para pacem

Joseph Rotblat, who died in 2005 at the age of 96, is revealed in this book to have been a man of many parts. He was an extremely gifted man and yet a humble and modest man. Through his long life he received many high honours, ultimately crowned by the Nobel Peace Prize (1995), and a knighthood (KCMG, 1998), recognising his work for humanity, and his service to the UK, respectively. Entitled to be called ‘Sir Joseph’ he preferred to be called Joe, just as in the old days his students at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College (lovingly known as ‘Bart's’) had been encouraged to call him ‘Prof’.

He was a good and kindly man. Children loved him. Michael Atiyah compares him to Saint Francis of Assisi ‘who followed a noble vision with single minded integrity’. He was an able nuclear physicist—Chadwick thought extremely highly . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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