Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds co-founded what Nobel Peace Prize winning organization that is named for a Canadian village?
"Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell–Einstein Manifesto in 1955. Rotblat and the Pugwash Conference jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts on nuclear disarmament. International Student/Young Pugwash groups have existed since founder Cyrus Eaton's death in 1979."
"that would later appear in the manifesto: After learning of the bombing of Hiroshima and seeing an impending nuclear arms race, Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project on moral grounds, remarked that he ""became worried about the whole future of mankind"". Over the years that followed Russell and Rotblat worked on efforts to curb nuclear proliferation, collaborating with Albert Einstein and other scientists to compose what became known as the Russell–Einstein Manifesto. The manifesto was released during a press conference at Caxton Hall, London. Rotblat, who chaired the meeting, describes it as follows: Russell had begun"
"Nobel Peace Prize ""for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms."" Józef Rotblat was born on 4 November 1908, to a Polish-Jewish family in Warsaw, in what was then Russian Poland. He was one of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. His father, Zygmunt Rotblat, built up and ran a nationwide horse-drawn carriage business, owned land and bred horses. Józef's early years were spent in what was a prosperous household but circumstances changed at the outbreak of World War I. Borders were closed and"
"Nobel, Ontario Nobel is a village on the shores of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. It is in the Municipality of McDougall in the District of Parry Sound. The community is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. This village is the administrative office of the Shawanaga First Nation reserve. During the First World War, Nobel was the home of two explosives factories: The British Cordite Limited and Canadian Explosives Ltd. Both sites closed in 1922. Explosives and munitions were also produced at Nobel in World War II. Nobel is of historical interest to Canadians because it was home of"
"hometown of figure skater John Mattatall as well as the retirement residence of 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics co-winner Willard Boyle co-inventor of the charge-coupled device or the CCD imaging chip at the heart of digital cameras. Wallace, Nova Scotia Wallace is a rural community in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Originally called Remsheg, meaning ""the place between"" in the Mi'kmaq language. The homes of the Acadians who lived in the village were burned as part of the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) during the French and Indian War. Wallace and near-by Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia were the first villages in"
"of his life, he was also elected honorary member of the International Association of Physics Students, and the Jamnalal Bajaj Foundation of India awarded him the Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 1999. Joseph Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish physicist, a self-described ""Pole with a British passport"". Rotblat worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project during World War II, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory after the war with Germany ended. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A"
"disarmament. Its focus on private meetings that address the interrelated issues of nuclear disarmament, non-military resolution of conflict, and the social responsibility of scientists derives from the famous Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955—the last public statement from Albert Einstein. The organization’s name comes from Pugwash, Nova Scotia, where the landmark meeting of scientists from East and West took place in 1957 during some of the darkest days of the Cold War. Throughout its history, Pugwash has won private and public acclaim from world leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev and Kofi Annan. The success of its approach was reinforced by the awarding"
"Alberta. In December 2011, the company abandoned its plan to build up to four nuclear reactors that could produce 4,000 megawatts of electricity at a site 30 kilometres north of Peace River. The Pembina Institute is a Canadian not-for-profit environmental policy research and education organization specializing in the fields of sustainable energy, community sustainability, global warming and corporate environmental management. Founded in 1985, the Institute has offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto. In 2006 the Institute released the report ""Nuclear Power in Canada: An Examination of Risks, Impacts and Sustainability"". The Port Hope Community Health Concerns Committee (PHCHCC)"
"city of Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. Subsequent meetings were held in Vienna and New York. The Commission consisted of a number of notable persons including Professor Joseph Rotblat, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize; Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France; Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank Group; General George Butler, former Commander of the United States Strategic Air Command; Doctor Maj Britt Theorin, then President of the International Peace Bureau; Field Marshal Michael Carver, former Chief of the General Staff and Defence Staff; Professor Robert O'Neill, Chichele Professor"
"of 1993. In parallel with the Pugwash Conferences, he joined with Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, Bertrand Russell and other concerned scientists to found the World Academy of Art and Science, which was proposed by them in the mid-1950s and formally constituted in 1960. He was the editorial board member of 'Journal of Environmental Peace' edited by Prof. Dr. Biswajit (Bob) Ganguly and Prof. Dr. Roger Hansell from University of Toronto. Now published from Noble International University. Rotblat retired from St Bartholomew's in 1976. In 1975 and 1976, he was Montague Visiting Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh."
"the Petawawa Research Forest nearby. The community borders the northern edge of CFB Petawawa. The Chalk River Laboratories is a nuclear research centre located on the bank of the Ottawa River and is named after the community. Chalk River Laboratories was the first laboratory created by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Chalk River Chalk River (2016 population: 1029) is a small rural village, part of the Laurentian Hills municipality in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Upper Ottawa Valley along Highway 17 (Trans-Canada Highway), 10 km inland (west) from the Ottawa River, approximately 21 km northwest of"
"Lebret Lebret is a village within the rural municipality of North Qu'Appelle No. 187, in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The village is situated on Mission Lake in the Qu'Appelle Valley. The population was 216 at the 2016 Census, (a 8.4% increase from 199 in the 2011 Canada Census). Lebret is located along Highway 56, about northeast of the capital, Regina. The village was named after ""the parish priest, Father Louis Lebret, who became the first postmaster of the community and, although he only held the position for a little more than six months, the office was named Lebret and"
"around Brantford. The famed Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant (Thayendanega) led his people from the Mohawk Valley of New York State to Upper Canada after being allied with the British during the American Revolution where they lost their land holdings. A group of 400 settled in 1788 on the Grand River at Mohawk Village which would later become Brantford. Nearly a century later (1886), the Joseph Brant Memorial would be erected in Burlington, Ontario in honour of Brant and the Six Nations Confederacy. The Mohawk Chapel, built by the British Crown in 1785 for the Mohawk and Iroquois people (Six Nations"
"Oscar. He hitched a ride, frozen to a project car, one cold day in the Winter of 2016. He has kept Dorothy free and clear of mice since. Dorothy, Alberta Dorothy is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 2. It is located approximately east Highway 56 and northwest of Brooks. The community was named for Dorothy Wilson, a young girl that lived in the area at the time the post office opened. Dorothy is home to two former churches, a United Church that was in service between 1932 and 1961, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help"
"people from the community with many going to the mines of Matagami and Joutel that had just opened. By the following year, the population had dropped to 1455. The Normetmar Mine closed in 1990. In 2005, work began on rehabilitation of the mine site by removing the tailings and planting vegetation. The former mayors of Normétal were: The town of Normétal is the set up of an award winning movie, ""La Donation"" from filmmaker Bernard Émond (2009), in which a family medicine physician from Montréal takes over the practice of an aging physician in need of respite. <br> <br> Normétal"
"the village. Please see RCAF Aerodrome - Halbrite for more information. Halbrite Halbrite is a village with in the Rural Municipality of , in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The village is located approximately 20 kilometers southeast of the city of Weyburn on Highway 39 at the intersections of Highway 606 & 705. Halbrite gets its name from 3 engineers who, at the time, worked with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Each contributed parts of their last names to make up the community's name: Hall, Bruce, and White. During the Second World War the Royal Canadian Air Force constructed a Relief"
"is the most populous reserve in Canada. Brantford is often known as the ""Telephone City"". The city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the device at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead. The Iroquoian-speaking Attawandaron, known in English as the Neutral Nation, lived in the Grand River valley area before the 17th century; their main village and seat of the chief, Kandoucho, was identified by 19th-century historians as having been located on the Grand River where present-day Brantford developed. This community, like the rest of their settlements, was destroyed when the Iroquois declared war in 1650 over"
"profitable. As of 2018, the CKRN rebroadcaster that served Joutel is still in operation, to serve a number of recreational properties and rural residents in the surrounding area. Joutel Joutel is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the municipality of Baie-James off Route 109 between Amos and Matagami. First established in 1965 due to the opening of gold, copper and zinc mines in the area, the community was named for early French explorer Henri Joutel, and had a population of several hundred residents at its peak. In the early 1970s, media services were brought to"
"Joutel Joutel is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the municipality of Baie-James off Route 109 between Amos and Matagami. First established in 1965 due to the opening of gold, copper and zinc mines in the area, the community was named for early French explorer Henri Joutel, and had a population of several hundred residents at its peak. In the early 1970s, media services were brought to the community, including rebroadcasters of CKRN-TV and CBF-FM. However, the community was abandoned by 1998, when the ore reserves were depleted enough that the mines were no longer"
"in Pugwash, Nova Scotia in 1957. The theme of the conference is ""Confronting New Nuclear Dangers."" The conference agenda will focus on strengthening the nuclear test ban and combating terrorism. The Astana conference working groups include: Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the"
"meeting of 22 scientists (seven from the United States, three each from the Soviet Union and Japan, two each from the United Kingdom and Canada, and one each from Australia, Austria, China, France, and Poland) in the village of Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada. The stimulus for the gathering was a Manifesto issued in 1955 by Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein—and signed by Max Born, Percy Bridgman, Leopold Infeld, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Herman Muller, Linus Pauling, Cecil Powell, Joseph Rotblat and Hideki Yukawa—which called upon scientists of all political persuasions to assemble to discuss the threat posed to civilization by the advent"
"Sarah Chandler. The 1000 women nominated were all part of a list submitted by the 1000 Women Association. The Nobel Prize committee officially accepted the nomination at the end of June 2005. Kama Steliga Kama Steliga (born 1967 in Kennewick, Washington, United States) is a Canadian activist and serves as the executive director of Lillooet Friendship Centre Society. It is an organization with the main focus of empowering Indigenous peoples in Canada through individual, family, and community programs and services. Steliga's work focuses on the small town of Lillooet in Canada. The project initially started as a project for women"
"Pembina Institute The Pembina Institute is a Canadian non-profit think tank focused on energy. Founded in 1985, the institute has offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. The Pembina Institute was formed following the 1981 Lodgepole sour gas accident in Alberta, which killed two people and polluted the air for weeks. A small group of rural Albertans came together to secure tougher regulations for drilling sour gas wells, and later went on to form the Pembina Institute. The Pembina Institute advocates policies that reduce the use of fossil fuels, and supports the transition to cleaner energy sources. The institute’s"
"Habitat for Humanity Canada Habitat for Humanity Canada is a Canadian non-governmental, and non-profit organization. In 1985, the Habitat for Humanity movement spread to Canada with the first Canadian build in Winkler, Manitoba. Habitat for Humanity in Canada has since grown to 72 affiliates in 10 provinces and 3 territories and has successfully provided over 2,500 families with safe, decent and affordable housing. Each affiliate is managed by a local board of directors. With the first build in Quebec, Habitat homes have been built in all ten provinces in 1998 and in all three territories in 2014. World’s first ReStore"
"Along with Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, Rotblat was one of eleven scientists who in 1955 signed the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, a letter to the world calling for a total ban on nuclear weapons. ""I was the youngest of the people who signed,"" Rotblat explained to Turk Pipkin at Rotblat's home in the suburbs of London, ""and now I am the only one still alive. This is the reason why I feel it is my duty, indeed it is my mission for the remaining days of my life, to alert the world to the continuing dangers of nuclear weapons."" In 1957,"
"Naujaat Naujaat ( ""literally"" ""seagulls' nesting place""), known until 2 July 2015 as Repulse Bay, is an Inuit hamlet located on the shores of Hudson Bay, in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, Canada. Naujaat is at the north end of Roes Welcome Sound which separates Southampton Island from the mainland. On the east side of Naujaat Frozen Strait leads east to Foxe Channel. The hamlet is located exactly on the Arctic Circle, on the north shore of Naujaat and on the south shore of the Rae Isthmus. Transport to the community is provided primarily by air and by an annual"
"River Hebert, Nova Scotia River Hebert is a village on the River Hebert in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.It is approximately 25 kilometres southwest of Amherst. As of 2006 the population was 543. The village and the river are both named after Louis Hébert, a settler from Port Royal in 1604, who navigated the river. Until the late 20th century, coal mining was the major industry in the area, but the last mine closed in 1981. River Hebert is home to 1442 River Hebert Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps, founded in 1949. River Hebert has one school that is open"
"Engineers Without Borders (Canada) Engineers Without Borders Canada (French: Ingénieurs sans frontières Canada), abbreviated EWB or ISF, is a non-governmental organization devoted to international development. Founded in 2000 by George Roter and Parker Mitchell, engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo, it is a registered Canadian charity focused on finding solutions to extreme poverty, specifically in rural Africa. The group has chapters at universities across Canada, and regional chapters aimed at professionals in several major cities. EWB Canada has no direct affiliations with similarly named organizations in the rest of the world, although it does collaborate with them from time"
"Earth Peoples Park Earth Peoples Park (1970–1994) was a parcel of swamp and forested land located in the small Canada–US border village of Norton, Vermont. The park property is now known as Black Turn Brook State Forest and is now owned by the state of Vermont. Purchase of the Norton parcel was inspired by the People's Park in Berkeley, California, with some donations for the down payment raised at the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Festival in Bethel, NY. The Vermont parcel was purchased and managed as a non-profit trust (Earth Peoples Park Inc.), with the land deed officially recorded"
"of Toronto. The first community in Canada, L'Arche Daybreak, was founded in 1969 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, near Toronto. Sue Mosteller, who lived with the Daybreak community for 40 years, acted as L'Arche's first International Coordinator after Jean Vanier. Dutch priest and spiritual writer Henri Nouwen also lived with the Daybreak community for several years until his death in 1996. He wrote about his experiences with Jean Vanier, L'Arche and the Daybreak community in his books ""The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey"" and ""Adam: God's Beloved"". The institutional and community archives of the Daybreak community are located at the"
"following the Plat of Zion. As so, the village of Stirling has been recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada for being the best preserved example of this layout in Canada, and designated as such on July 20, 1996. Stirling is one of only two communities that owed its existence to a partnership between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Charles A. Magrath of the Alberta Railway & Coal Company, and it is one of only three communities designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. Construction of the ""St. Mary Railway"", beginning in Stirling and"
"Rotblat was one of the founders of the Pugwash Conferences, a series of global gathering of scientists, scholars and public figures working to reduce the danger of armed conflict, and to seek cooperative solutions for global problems. Knighted in 1998, Rotblat published several works on the Pugwash movement, nuclear physics and world peace. Rotblat died in 2005, not long after his conversations with Turk Pipkin for the film ""Nobelity"". ""As long as nuclear weapons exist,"" Sir Joseph told Turk, ""sooner or later they will be used."" Though Rotblat feels the United States is now engaged in an overall policy of"
"Quebec-Labrador Foundation Quebec-Labrador Foundation/Atlantic Centre for the Environment (QLF) is a not-for-profit organization in the U.S. and a registered charity in Canada. QLF's mission is twofold: ""to support the rural communities and environment of eastern Canada and New England, and to create models for stewardship and cultural heritage that can be applied worldwide."" Headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, QLF has an office in Montreal, Quebec, and seven Field Desks throughout New England and into Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Quebec North Shore). The root of all of QLF’s programs, which began in the early 60s and continues through to"