Abstract
To the world at large, the late Joseph Rotblat is known as the Polish-born, British-based, scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb, and for the rest of his life campaigned for the abolition of nuclear weapons. He, and the unofficial federation of European, American, Soviet, and other scientists that he founded, known as Pugwash, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. To physicians, Rotblat is also known as a physicist who specialised in understanding the effects on living tissue of radiation and radioactive fallout and in developing nuclear medicine, through his long-held professorship of physics at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.
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