List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
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The Nuclear-Free Future Award
annually honours the architects of a nuclear-free
planet. This is a list of notable recipients of the Nuclear-Free Future Award, categorised by country:
Nuclear-Free Future Award
Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power....
annually honours the architects of a nuclear-free
Nuclear-free zone
A nuclear-free zone is an area where nuclear weapons and nuclear power are banned. The specific ramifications of these depend on the locale in question....
planet. This is a list of notable recipients of the Nuclear-Free Future Award, categorised by country:
Germany
- Hans-Peter DürrHans-Peter DürrHans-Peter Dürr is a German physicist. In addition to nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, he has advocated responsible scientific and energy policies.-Biography:...
- Hans-Josef FellHans-Josef FellHans-Josef Fell is a member of the Green Party in the German Parliament. Fell framed the German Renewable Energy legislation, together with Hermann Scheer...
- Siegwart Horst GüntherSiegwart Horst GüntherProfessor Siegwart Horst Günther once worked with Albert Schweitzer in Africa. He is a prominent proponent of the disputed claim that the use of depleted uranium in munitions causes cancers, birth defects and other pathologies. In 2007 the Nuclear-Free Future Award honored for the third time Prof...
- Michael SladekMichael SladekMichael Sladek is a German doctor and bearer of the Bundesverdienstkreuz.He became famous by realising a grid-independent system for producing electricity, by distributed little power plants....
- Klaus TraubeKlaus TraubeKlaus Traube is a German engineer and former manager in the German nuclear power industry and presently one of its leading opponents...
- Inge Schmitz-FeuerhakeInge Schmitz-FeuerhakeBorn in Osnabrück, Germany on September 28, 1935, Inge Schmitz-Feuerhakes research has assessed the biological effects of ionizing radiation at low dosage levels. From 1973 and until her retirement in 2000 she was a professor in experimental physics at the University of Bremen...
- Armin Weiss
USA
- Charmaine White FaceCharmaine White FaceCharmaine White Face, Zumila Wobaga, is an Oglala Tetuwan from the Oceti Sakowin in North America....
- Ed GrothusEd GrothusEdward B. Grothus was a machinist/technician and employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory during the 1950s and 1960s...
- Corbin HarneyCorbin HarneyCorbin Harney was an elder and spiritual leader of the Newe people. Harney reportedly inspired the creation in 1994 of the Shundahai Network, which works for environmental justice and the abolition of nuclear weapons...
- Manuel PinoManuel PinoManuel Pino is a professor at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona, who comes from a village of the Tewa people west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Opposition to uranium mining has played a central role in Pino's life. The theme for his sociology dissertation was The Destructive Impact of Uranium...
- Jonathan SchellJonathan SchellJonathan Edward Schell is an author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily deals with nuclear weapons.-Career:His work has appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, and TomDispatch...
- Stewart UdallStewart UdallStewart Lee Udall was an American politician. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969, under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B...