Ludwik Rajchman
Ludwik Rajchman · Science & Medicine
Polish physician who founded UNICEF (Nobel Peace Prize 1965)
1881, Warsaw, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1965, Chenu, France
Poland · France · international (League of Nations · United Nations)
UNICEF1946Ludwik Rajchman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Polish physician who founded UNICEF (Nobel Peace Prize 1965)
Rajchman, a Polish physician from a Jewish family, directed the health organization of the League of Nations and, after World War II, conceived and founded UNICEF to aid children in devastated countries. He served as the first chairman of its executive board and shaped its mission of international child welfare. UNICEF, the organization he created, received the 1965 Nobel Peace Prize.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Polish physician who founded UNICEF (Nobel Peace Prize 1965)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Nobel Peace Prize winners
Similar Contributors
Bernard Kouchner
Bernard Lown
Albert Einstein
André Lwoff
François Jacob
