The physicist Sir Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908), born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 4, was a member of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb in the United States. In November 1944, when it became clear that Nazi Germany would not be able...

Rotblat was born Józef Rotblat in Warsaw, the fifth of seven children to a paper merchant. His father's business was ruined by World War I, and the family was reduced to selling vodka they illegally distilled.[1] Despite not receiving a formal...

Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate change._ 2006: Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the Bangladeshi bank he founded._ 2005: Mohamed ElBaradei,...