Russell, Bertrand, Manuscript, July 1955

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Description: 
"Statement by 8 eminent scientists & self ..."; notes for press conference to launch Russell-Einstein manifesto

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Case Study: 
“Remember your humanity, and forget the rest”: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto and the Pugwash Movement
Creator: 
Russell, Bertrand
Source: 
manuscript
Date: 
July 1955
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Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
Copyright, public domain: McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

Identifier: 
00001212-2
Language: 
eng
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image
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Transcript: 

Aims in drawing up statement:
Keep to science, avoid politics, thus get signatures from right and left. Science impartial. Build bridge, for cooperation.
Who's who of signatories
6 of 8 Nobel prize -- other 2 probably soon.
2 British, 2 American + Einstein
Dr. Li Sze Kuang no answer yet.
1 Pole, 1 French, 1 Japanese
Sympathetic letters from many others, including Skobeltzyn (Moscow)
Infeld University of Warsaw (Prof.), physics
Joliot-Curie son-in-law of discover of radium. Nobel Prize Chemistry, head of French atomic research (Reservations, Statement p. 2)
Prof. Hermann Joseph Muller (Indiana), Nobel Prize for mutations under x-rays. (Reservation p. 3)
Prof. Powell, Bristol, Nobel for physics.