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Participants - The First Pugwash Conference


First Pugwash Conference Participants
From left to right: I. Ogawa,  Chou Pei-Yuan,   V. P. Pavlichenko,   S. Tomonaga,   C. F. Powell,
A. M. B. Lacassagne,   A. V. Topchiev,   A. M. Kuzin,   E. Rabinowitch,   G. Brock Chisholm,
D. V. Skobeltzyn,   J. S. Foster,   C. S. Eaton,   J. Rotblat,   H. J. Muller,   H. Thirring,
L. Szilard,   W. Selove,   E. H. S. Burhop,   M. L. E. Oliphant,   M. Danysz,
(D. F. Cavers, P. Doty, V. F. Weisskopf and H. Yukawa were absent when this photograph was taken)

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

  • Australia
    • Professor M.L.E Oliphant
      Physicist, Director Post-graduate Research School of Physical Sciences, National University of Australia, Canberra

  • Austria
    • Professor H. Thirring
      Professor of Physics, University of Vienna

  • Canada
    • Dr. G. Brock Chisholm
      Physician. Former Director-General, United Nations World Health Organization, Victoria, B.C.
    • Professor J.S. Foster
      Physicist. McGill University, Montreal

  • China
    • Professor Chou Pei Yuan
      Physicist. Vice-Rector, Peking University

  • France
    • Professor A.M.B. Lacassagne
      Physician, L'Institut du Radium, Paris

  • Japan
    • Professor I. Ogawa
      Professor of Physics at Tokyo's Rikkyo (St. Paul's) University
    • Professor H. Yukawa
      Director Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University, Nobel Prize in Physics
    • Professor S. Tomonaga
      Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Education

  • Poland
    • Professor M. Danysz
      Physicist. University of Warsaw

  • UK
    • Professor C.F. Powell
      H.H. Wills Physical Laboratory at Bristol University, Nobel Prize in Physics
    • Professor J. Rotblat
      Professor of Physics, University of London. Executive Vice-President of the Atomic Scientists Association

  • USA
    • Professor D.F. Cavers
      Associate Dean- Harvard Law School
    • Professor H.J. Muller
      Biologist. Professor of Zoology Indiana University. Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine
    • Professor P. Doty
      Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
    • Professor E. Rabinowitch
      Biophysicist, Research Professor, University of Illinois, Editor, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
    • Professor W. Selove
      Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
    • Professor L. Szilard
      Physicist. University of Chicago
    • Professor V. F. Weisskopf
      Physicist. Mass. Inst. of Technology, Boston, MA.

  • USSR
    • Professor A.M. Kuzin
      Institute of Biophysics, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow
    • Academician D.V. Skobeltzyn
      Soviet Academy of Sciences. Director of Lebedev Institute of Physics, Moscow
    • Academician A.V. Topchiev
      Chemist. Head of Institute of Silicates. Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow