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| Flood of tributes for human
dynamo |
PROFESSOR Jack Simmons from Whitehall Park in Highgate, a retired
radiation scientist and a research student under Professor Rotblat
at St Barts in 1956, said: “He very much left his research
students to develop their own ideas – he never tried to steer
us in any way. He was someone who could really inspire enthusiasm,
who always had our best interests at heart.”
Rosemary Foley, now a clinical scientist in radio therapy and nuclear
medicine, who also started her career as a research student under
Rotblat at St Barts in 1964, remembered a “brilliant, compassionate
and humble man”.
She added: “When he came into the hospital again about three
years ago, he was exactly the same. You always had to run to keep
up with him and after all those years, I was still running to keep
up with him.”
Tim Walker, then Labour councillor for Kilburn who had come to know
Rotblat well, made a speech proposing the professor for the honour.
He said: “It was a very small recognition for Joe compared
to the huge number of awards he had won but he was very flattered
that he had been honoured. The extraordinary thing about him was
that you never thought of him as either old or getting older. He
was always a dynamo.”
Dame Jane Roberts, leader of Camden Council, said the council would
mark his death with a minute’s silence at the full council
meeting on Monday. She said: “I admired him enormously. He
was a remarkable man who made a decision to walk away from war and
weaponry and devote his life to the betterment of human kind. It’s
important that we honour him.” |
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