Rotblat

American  

[rot-blat] / ˈrɒt blæt /

noun

1. Joseph, 1908–2005, English physicist and anti–nuclear arms activist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1995.

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Rotblat British  

/ ˈrɒtblæt /

noun

1. See Pugwash conferences

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Example Sentences

Ultimately, the only member of Los Alamos to register dissent was Joseph Rotblat, who quietly resigned on ethical grounds after learning in November 1944 that there was no active Nazi atomic bomb program.

From Salon

What astonishes me, however, is the obscurity into which Oppenheimer’s colleague Joseph Rotblat has been cast.

From Scientific American

Disgusted, Rotblat departed the project a few months later and would spend his life working toward atomic nonproliferation.

From Scientific American

“Science became identified with death and destruction,” Rotblat said in his Nobel lecture as he described the inception of the atomic age.

From Scientific American

The world recognized Rotblat’s impact, but I find few people, physicists or not, have heard his name.

From Scientific American