Hideki Yukawa
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Hideki Yukawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 "for his prediction of the existence of mesons on the basis of theoretical work on nuclear forces."
Yukawa in 1949
Yukawa with his family, 1949.
Russell–Einstein Manifesto
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The Russell–Einstein Manifesto was issued in London on 9 July 1955 by Bertrand Russell in the midst of the Cold War. It highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to
Hideki Yukawa
…Theoretical Physics), a position he held until his retirement in 1970. In 1955, Yukawa joined ten other leading scientists and intellectuals in signing the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, calling for nuclear disarmament. Yukawa was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution…
"Here, then, is the problem which we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?" ~ Bertrand Russell