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People of Science with Brian Cox - Professor Martin Rees on Joseph Rotblat

5 mins watch 05 January 2020

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Martin Rees talks to Brian Cox about one of his heroes, Joseph Rotblat, a physicist on the Manhattan Project, who later became a leading advocate of peace and disarmament.

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Portrait of Joseph Rotblat © Anne Purkiss

Hans Bethe portrait - Los Alamos National Laboratory, all rights reserved

2002 interview by Edward Goldwyn, used with permission of the University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering.

Other images © British Pugwash


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