American Nobel
Laureates Make a
Stand for Peace
Saturday, March 08 2003 @ 09:47 AM GMT
The following is a declaration signed by 41 American Nobel
Laureates who are opposed to war with Iraq. In addition to
winning Nobel prizes, 18 of the signers have received the
National Medal of Science, the nation's highest science
honor.
The Declaration Reads:
"The undersigned oppose a preventive war against Iraq
without broad international support. Military operations
against Iraq may indeed lead to a relatively swift victory
in the short term. But war is characterized by surprise,
human loss and unintended consequences. Even with a
victory, we believe that the medical, economic,
environmental, moral, spiritual, political and legal
consequences of an American preventive attack on Iraq
would undermine, not protect, U.S. security and standing
in the world."
The signers are these, with E designating economics; P,
physics; C, chemistry; and M, medicine or physiology:
George A. Akerlof E
Philip W. Anderson P
Paul Berg C
Hans A. Bethe P
Nicolaas Bloembergen P
Paul D. Boyer C
Owen Chamberlain P
Leon N. Cooper P
James W. Cronin P
Robert F. Curl Jr. C
Val L. Fitch P
Robert F. Furchgott M
Sheldon L. Glashow P
Roger Guillemin M
Herbert A. Hauptman C
Alan J. Heeger C
Louis J. Ignarro M
Eric R. Kandel M
Har Gobind Khorana M
Lawrence R. Klein E
Walter Kohn C
Leon M. Lederman P
Yuan T. Lee C
William N. Lipscomb C
Daniel L. McFadden E
Franco Modigliani E
Ferid Murad M
George E. Palade M
Arno A. Penzias P
Martin L. Perl P
William D. Phillips P
Norman F. Ramsey P
Robert Schrieffer P
William F. Sharpe E
Jack Steinberger P
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. P
Charles H. Townes P
Daniel C. Tsui P
Harold E. Varmus M
Robert W. Wilson P |
