The Hiroshima survivor who is still shouting for peace: Part 2
Setsuko Thurlow survived the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima. She has spent her life telling the world what she saw, in the hope that it never happens again.
In the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of her home city, Hiroshima in August 1945, Setsuko Thurlow had to rebuild her world. Japan had been defeated by the allies, the militaristic culture of her childhood was displaced, and Setsuko was left looking for meaning. She decided to devote her life to stopping the nuclear destruction she had witnessed from ever happening again, and she's been shouting for peace ever since. In 2017 she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of ICAN - the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Professor Claudia de Rham had an unstable childhood. Her family moved all around the world, it was unclear where home was, or even what her first langauge was. She looked for stability in the rules of physics, and in the process, she became obsessed by gravity. She's now an award-winning theoretical physicist, and her book is called The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity.
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(Photo: Setsuko Thurlow. Credit: Michael Barker)
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