Eugene Rabinowitch
Eugene Rabinowitch · Science & Medicine
Manhattan Project chemist, co-author of the Franck Report urging that the bomb not be dropped on a city, and co-founder of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and its Doomsday Clock.
27 April 1901, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 15 May 1973, United States
Chicago & Urbana, Illinois, United States
Eugene Rabinowitch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Manhattan Project chemist, co-author of the Franck Report urging that the bomb not be dropped on a city, and co-founder of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and its Doomsday Clock.
Born Evgenii Isaakovich Rabinovich in Saint Petersburg, he left Russia with his family in 1918 to escape the revolution and the persecution of Jews, took his doctorate in Berlin, and lost his fellowship the moment Hitler became chancellor in 1933 — a refugee twice over, by way of Copenhagen and London, before reaching America in 1938. On the Manhattan Project he was a co-author of the Franck Report, which urged that the bomb be demonstrated rather than dropped on a city; the advice was not taken.
In 1945 he co-founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which he edited until his death and which still keeps the Doomsday Clock — the scientists' own warning to the world they had changed.
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Manhattan Project chemist, co-author of the Franck Report urging that the bomb not be dropped on a city, and co-founder of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and its Doomsday Clock.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Rabinowitch
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