Marek Górlikowski received the Jan Jędrzejewicz’s Award for the book “Nobel Prize holder from Nowolipki. Józef Rotblat’s war for peace” in the competition for the best Polish book on the history of science and technology.

The competition is organized jointly by the Committee on the History of Science and Technology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), Józef Mianowski’s Science Support Foundation and Płońsk self-government.
The awarded book is an extraordinary story of a forgotten physicist from Warsaw’s Muranów. Józef Rotblat was 36 years old when he was working out an atomic bomb within a secret Manhattan project. He was Polish and refused to accept British citizenship – he was therefore suspected of espionage for the Soviet Union. When he developed the most terrible weapons of mass destruction in the US, his family in occupied Poland fought for survival. Half a century later, the scientist received the Nobel Peace Prize for his activities in favor of atomic disarmament.