The following is a list of the Nobel Prize laureates who signed an open letter in 2022 in support of Ukraine, following the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Overview
On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the current phase of the war, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. By April 2022, the invasion's initial goal of a rapid Russian victory via decapitation had failed, with Ukraine pushing back the northern arm of the invasion and preventing the capture of Kyiv. Following this, the war transitioned to more conventional fighting in the south and east of Ukraine.
On 1 March 2022, an open letter from a group of Nobel Prize laureates was published in support of Ukraine. More than 200 Nobel laureates signed the letter, was published simultaneously in English, Russian and Ukrainian.
The signees expressed their support for the independence of the Ukrainian people and the freedom of the Ukrainian state, in the face of the invasion. The letter was published online on 2 March, after being circulated to Nobel laureates the previous day. It included a call for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, and criticism of the unjustified atrocities of the invasion. The latter stated that the invasion violated the Charter of the United Nations. The letter also includes the view that it distinguishes between the actions and views of President of Russia Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion, and the Russian general public; the letter states that it does not believe that the Russian people are involved in, or responsible for, the invasion. Individual statements from former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, and from the 14th Dalai Lama were included on the website with the letter.
The letter was drafted by Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, who sent his draft to fellow laureate Richard J. Roberts. Using Roberts' website nlcampaigns.org, where issues of concern to laureates can be publicized, the letter was shared, and the signatures were obtained.
List of signatories This is a list of signatories to the open letter, as of 1 April 2022.
NameNationalityYear of awardAreaPeter Agre2003ChemistryJames P. Allison2018MedicineHarvey J. Alter2020MedicineHiroshi Amano2014PhysicsWerner Arber1978MedicineÓscar Arias1987PeaceFrances Arnold2018ChemistryRichard Axel2004MedicineDavid Baltimore1975MedicineBarry Barish2017PhysicsGeorg Bednorz1987PhysicsCarlos Filipe Ximenes Belo1996PeacePaul Berg1980ChemistryBruce Beutler2011MedicineElizabeth Blackburn / 2009MedicineMichael Stuart Brown1985MedicineLinda B. Buck2004MedicineWilliam C. Campbell / 2015MedicineMario Capecchi / 2007MedicineJimmy Carter2002PeaceThomas Cech1989ChemistryMartin Chalfie2008ChemistryEmmanuelle Charpentier2020ChemistrySteven Chu1997PhysicsAaron Ciechanover2004ChemistryJ. M. Coetzee / 2003LiteratureElias James Corey1990ChemistryRobert Curl1996ChemistryAngus Deaton2015EconomicsJohann Deisenhofer1988ChemistryJennifer Doudna2020ChemistryJacques Dubochet2017ChemistryShirin Ebadi2003PeaceRobert F. Engle2003EconomicsGerhard Ertl2007ChemistryEugene Fama2013EconomicsAndrew Fire2006MedicineJoachim Frank / 2017ChemistryJerome Isaac Friedman1990PhysicsLeymah Gbowee2011PeaceAndre Geim / 2010PhysicsReinhard Genzel2020PhysicsAndrea M. Ghez2020PhysicsSheldon Glashow1979PhysicsJoseph L. Goldstein1985MedicineCarol W. Greider2009MedicineDavid Gross2004PhysicsDuncan Haldane / 2016PhysicsJeffrey C. Hall2017MedicineJohn L. Hall2005PhysicsSerge Haroche / 2012PhysicsOliver Hart / 2016EconomicsLeland H. Hartwell2001MedicineKlaus Hasselmann2021PhysicsHarald zur Hausen2008MedicineRichard Henderson2017ChemistryDudley R. Herschbach1986ChemistryAvram Hershko / 2004ChemistryRoald Hoffmann / 1981ChemistryJules A. Hoffmann / 2011MedicineBengt Holmström2016EconomicsTasuku Honjo2018MedicineGerard 't Hooft1999PhysicsH. Robert Horvitz2002MedicineMichael Houghton2020MedicineRobert Huber1988ChemistryTim Hunt2001MedicineLouis Ignarro1998MedicineKazuo Ishiguro / 2017LiteratureElfriede Jelinek2004LiteratureDavid Julius2021MedicineWilliam Kaelin Jr.2019MedicineTakaaki Kajita2015PhysicsEric Kandel / 2000MedicineTawakkol Karman / 2011PeaceWolfgang Ketterle / 2001PhysicsKlaus von Klitzing1985PhysicsBrian Kobilka2012ChemistryRoger D. Kornberg2006ChemistryJ. Michael Kosterlitz / 2016PhysicsFinn E. Kydland2004EconomicsThe 14th Dalai Lama / 1989PeaceYuan T. Lee1986ChemistryRobert Lefkowitz2012ChemistryAnthony James Leggett / 2003PhysicsJean-Marie Lehn1987ChemistryMichael Levitt / 2013ChemistryTomas Lindahl / 2015ChemistryBenjamin List2021ChemistryRoderick MacKinnon2003ChemistryDavid MacMillan / 2021ChemistryBarry Marshall2005MedicineEric Maskin2007EconomicsJohn C. Mather2006PhysicsMichel Mayor2019PhysicsArthur B. McDonald2015PhysicsDaniel McFadden2000EconomicsCraig Mello2006MedicineRobert C. Merton1997EconomicsHartmut Michel1988ChemistryPaul Milgrom2020EconomicsPaul L. Modrich2015ChemistryWilliam E. Moerner2014ChemistryEdvard Moser2014MedicineMay-Britt Moser2014MedicineGérard Mourou2018PhysicsHerta Müller / 2009LiteratureFerid Murad1998MedicineRoger Myerson2007EconomicsErwin Neher1991MedicineRyoji Noyori2001ChemistryPaul Nurse2001MedicineChristiane Nüsslein-Volhard1995MedicineBarack Obama2009PeaceJohn O'Keefe / 2014MedicineYoshinori Ohsumi2016MedicineOrhan Pamuk2006LiteratureArdem Patapoutian / 2021MedicineJim Peebles / 2019PhysicsEdmund Phelps2006EconomicsWilliam Daniel Phillips1997PhysicsHugh David Politzer2004PhysicsStanley B. Prusiner1997MedicineVenkatraman Ramakrishnan / 2009ChemistryPeter J. Ratcliffe2019MedicineMaria Ressa / 2021PeaceCharles M. Rice2020MedicineAdam Riess2011PhysicsRichard J. Roberts1993MedicineMichael Rosbash2017MedicineAlvin E. Roth2012EconomicsJames Rothman2013MedicineBert Sakmann1991MedicineJuan Manuel Santos2016PeaceKailash Satyarthi2014PeaceJean-Pierre Sauvage2016ChemistryRandy Schekman2013MedicineBrian Schmidt / 2011PhysicsGregg L. Semenza2019MedicinePhillip Allen Sharp1993MedicineKarl Barry Sharpless2001ChemistryDan Shechtman2011ChemistryRobert J. Shiller2013EconomicsHideki Shirakawa2000ChemistryHamilton O. Smith1978MedicineWole Soyinka1986LiteratureFraser Stoddart / 2016ChemistryHorst Ludwig Störmer / 1998PhysicsDonna Strickland2018PhysicsJack W. Szostak / 2009MedicineJoseph Hooton Taylor Jr.1993PhysicsKip Thorne2017PhysicsSusumu Tonegawa1987MedicineDaniel C. Tsui / 1998PhysicsHarold E. Varmus1989MedicineJohn E. Walker1997ChemistryArieh Warshel / 2013ChemistryRainer Weiss / 2017PhysicsM. Stanley Whittingham / 2019ChemistryEric F. Wieschaus1995MedicineTorsten Wiesel1981MedicineFrank Wilczek2004PhysicsJody Williams1997PeaceDavid J. Wineland2012PhysicsKurt Wüthrich2002ChemistryShinya Yamanaka2012MedicineMichael W. Young2017Medicine
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