The Göttingen Peace Prize 2025 of the Dr. Roland Röhl Foundation has been awarded to the renowned theoretical physicist and Global Security Institute Advisory Board member Professor Frank von Hippel. With this award, the Foundation honors outstanding services to scientific peace research and its significant peace-oriented activities in the field of nuclear weapons control and disarmament, in particular in the non-redistribution of nuclear weapons. Professor von Hippel has been working with the Global Security Institute for more than 40 years.
The jury members of the foundation justified their choice with von Hippel’s numerous physics-based studies, cooperative initiatives and current statements, which have made a decisive contribution to the control and elimination of fissile material, to the safety of nuclear fuel circuit plants and to the verifiable disarmament of nuclear weapons. His decades-long leadership role in diverse practical efforts for nuclear arms control and disarmament, including his work in the U.S. administration of President Clinton, as well as his advisory activities for numerous non-governmental organizations, underline his tireless work for peace.
Professor von Hippel is also co-founder and co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, New Jersey, a world-renowned institution for peace science research and training on technical and political aspects of nuclear arms control and disarmament. His work makes him a role model in Germany and worldwide for tireless scientific peace research.
The Göttingen Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to him for his extraordinary services and his tireless commitment to peace and security. Below is a presentation by Professor von Hippel:
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