On
the 100th anniversary of the Nobel prize
100 Nobel laureates warn that our security hangs on environmental and social
reform
The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from
the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the legitimate demands of
the world's dispossessed. Of these poor and disenfranchised, the majority live a
marginal existence in equatorial climates. Global warming, not of their making
but originating with the wealthy few, will affect their fragile ecologies most.
Their situation will be desperate and manifestly unjust.
It cannot be expected, therefore, that in all cases they will be content to
await the beneficence of the rich. If then we permit the devastating power of
modern weaponry to spread through this combustible human landscape, we invite a
conflagration that can engulf both rich and poor. The only hope for the future
lies in co-operative international action, legitimized by democracy.
It is time to turn our backs on the unilateral search for security, in which we
seek to shelter behind walls. Instead, we must persist in the quest for united
action to counter both global warming and a weaponized world.
These twin goals will constitute vital components of stability as we move toward
the wider degree of social justice that alone gives hope of peace.
Some of the needed legal instruments are already at hand, such as the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Convention on Climate Change, the Strategic
Arms Reduction Treaties and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. As concerned
citizens, we urge all governments to commit to these goals that constitute steps
on the way to replacement of war by law.
To survive in the world we have transformed, we must learn to think in a new
way. As never before, the future of each depends on the good of all.
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Sidney Altman Chemistry, 1989 |
Philip W. Anderson Physics, 1977 |
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Oscar Arias Sanchez Peace, 1987 |
J. Georg Bednorz Physics, 1987 |
Bishop Carlos F.X. Belo Peace, 1996 |
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Bishop Carlos F.X. Belo Peace, 1996 |
Baruj Benacerraf Physiology/Medicine, 1980 |
Hans A. Bethe Physics, 1967 |
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James W. Black Physiology/Medicine, 1988 |
Guenter Blobel Physiology/Medicine, 1999 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics, 1981 |
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Norman E. Boriaug Peace, 1970 |
Paul D. Boyer Chemistry, 1997 |
Bertram N. Brockhouse Physic, 1994 |
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Herbert C. Brown Chemistry, 1979 |
Georges Charpak Physics, 1992 |
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Physics, 1997 |
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John W. Cornforth Chemistry, 1975 |
Francis H. Crick Physiology/Medicine, 1962 |
James W. Cronin Physics, 1980 |
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Paul J. Crutzen Chemistry, 1995 |
Robert F. Curl Chemistry, 1996 |
His Holiness The Dalai Lama Peace, 1989 |
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Johann Deisenhofer Chemistry, 1988 |
Peter C. Doherty Physiology/Medicine, 1996 |
Manfred Eigen Chemistry, 1967 |
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Richard R. Ernst Chemistry, 1991 |
Leo Esaki Physics, 1973 |
Edmond H. Fischer Physiology/Medicine, 1992 |
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Val L. Fitch Physics, 1980 |
Robert F. Furchgott Physiology/Medicine, 1998 |
Walter Gilbert Chemistry, 1980 |
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Sheldon L. Glashow Physics, 1979 |
Mikhail S. Gorbachev Peace, 1990 |
Nadine Gordimer Literature, 1991 |
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Roger Guillemin Physiology/Medicine, 1977 |
Herbert A. Hauptman Chemistry, 1985 |
Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry, 1986 |
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Antony Hewish Physics, 1974 |
Roald Hoffman Chemistry, 1981 |
Gerardus 't Hooft Physics, 1999 |
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David H. Hubel Physiology/Medicine, 1981 |
Robert Huber Chemistry, 1988 |
Francois Jacob Physiology/Medicine, 1975 |
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Brian D. Josephson Physics, 1973 |
Jerome Karle Chemistry, 1985 |
Wolfgang Ketterle Physics, 2001 |
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H. Gobind Khorana Physiology/Medicine, 1968 |
Lawrence R. Klein Economics, 1980 |
Klaus von Klitzing Physics, 1985 |
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Aaron Klug Chemistry, 1982 |
Walter Kohn Chemistry, 1998 |
Herbert Kroemer Physics, 2000 |
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Harold Kroto Chemistry, 1996 |
Willis E. Lamb Physics, 1955 |
Leon M. Lederman Physics, 1988 |
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Yuan T. Lee Chemistry, 1986 |
Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry, 1987 |
Rita Levi-Montalcini Physiology/Medicine, 1986 |
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William N. Lipscomb Chemistry, 1976 |
Alan G. MacDiarmid Chemistry, 2000 |
Daniel L. McFadden Economics, 2000 |
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César Milstein Physiology/Medicine, 1984 |
Franco Modigliani Economics, 1985 |
Rudolf L. Moessbauer Physics, 1961 |
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Mario J. Molina Chemistry, 1995 |
Ben R. Mottelson Physics, 1975 |
Ferid Murad Physiology/Medicine, 1998 |
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Erwin Neher Physiology/Medicine, 1991 |
Marshall W. Nirenberg Physiology/Medicine, 1968 |
Joseph E. Murray Physiology/Medicine, 1990 |
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Paul M. Nurse Physiology/Medicine, 2001 |
Max F. Perutz Chemistry, 1962 |
William D. Phillips Physics, 1997 |
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John C. Polanyi Chemistry, 1986 |
Ilya Prigogine Chemistry, 1977 |
Burton Richter Physics, 1976 |
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Heinrich Rohrer Physics, 1987 |
Joseph Rotblat Peace, 1995 |
Carlo Rubbia Physics, 1984 |
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Bert Sakmann Physiology/Medicine, 1991 |
Frederick Sanger Chemistry, 1958; 1980 |
José Saramago Literature, 1998 |
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J. Robert Schrieffer Physics, 1972 |
Melvin Schwartz Physics, 1988 |
K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry, 2001 |
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Richard E. Smalley Chemistry, 1996 |
Jack Steinberger Physics, 1988 |
Joseph E. Stiglitz Economics, 2001 |
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Horst L. Stormer Physics, 1998 |
Henry Taube Chemistry, 1983 |
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Physics, 1993 |
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Susumu Tonegawa Physiology/Medicine, 1997 |
Charles H. Townes Physics, 1964 |
Daniel T. Tsui Physics, 1998 |
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Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu Peace, 1984 |
John Vane Physiology/Medicine, 1982 |
John E. Walker Chemistry, 1997 |
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Eric F. Wieschaus Physiology/Medicine, 1982 |
Jody Williams Peace, 1997 |
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Robert W. Wilson Physics, 1978 |
Ahmed H. Zewail Chemistry, 1999 |
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