Physics Professors

Niels Bohr
He was the head of his prestigious Institute of Theoretical Physics at the outbreak of WWII. A Danish Jew, he outwardly protested the Nazi takeover of his country, and he was evacuated to Britain in 1943. He continued his work in Britain and America, and he became very concerned as to the fate that could possibly befall humanity at the hands of The Bomb. In 1944 he tried unsuccessfully to persuade FDR and Winston Churchill to seek international cooperation in dealing with nuclear weapons. He sent an open letter to the United Nations advocating an “open world,” led the First International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in 1955 in Geneva, and helped create the European Council for Nuclear Research in furtherance of this cause. For his efforts he received the first U.S. Atoms for Peace Award in 1957.

Albert Einstein
He became a German citizen in 1914, but in 1933 he renounced his citizenship and immigrated to America as the Nazis took over Germany. H...