Research Catalog

Keeper of the nuclear conscience : the life and work of Joseph Rotblat

Title: Keeper of the nuclear conscience : the life and work of Joseph Rotblat / Andrew Brown.
Author: Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-
Publication: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	JSD 15-81	Offsite

Details

Description

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

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.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biographie.
Biography.

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JSD 15-81

ISBN

9780199586585
0199586586

LCCN

2011945225

OCLC

751831996

Author

Brown, Andrew, 1950 August 12-

Title

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

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Research Call Number

JSD 15-81

View in Legacy Catalog