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An open letter from Nobel laureates

The undersigned Nobel laureates voice our support for the Ukrainian people and the free and　independent state of Ukraine as it faces Russian aggression.

In a move that recalls the infamous attack of Nazi Germany on Poland in 1939 (using similar tricks of feigned provocation) and on the Soviet Union in 1941, the government of the Russian Federation, led by President Putin, has launched an unprovoked military aggression — nothing else but a war — against its neighbor, Ukraine. We choose our words carefully here, for we do not believe the Russian people have a role in this aggression.

We join in condemning these military actions and President Putin’s essential denial of the legitimacy of Ukraine’s existence.

There is always a peaceful way to resolve disputes. The Russian invasion blatantly violates the United Nations Charter, which says “All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state.” It ignores the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, which obligated Russia and others to respect the sovereignty,　independence, and existing borders of Ukraine.

Russia’s security concerns can be addressed within the framework of the UN Charter, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, and the 1990 Paris Charter. To make war, as President Putin and his collaborators have done, is an unwarranted, bloody, and unproductive way to a future.

The Russian invasion will stain the international reputation of the Russian state for decades to come. It will pose barriers to its economy and inflict hardships on its population. The sanctions imposed will restrict the ease of movement of its talented and hardworking people in the world. Why raise this fence between Russia and the world now?

Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers, Russian soldiers, and Ukrainian civilians, including children, have died already. It’s so sad, so unnecessary. We gather in this appeal to call upon the Russian government to stop its invasion of Ukraine and withdraw its military forces from Ukraine.

We respect the calm and the strength of the Ukrainian people. We are with you.

Our hearts go out to the families and friends of all, Ukrainians and Russians, who have died and been injured already. May peace come to this piece of our beautiful world.

159 signees:
Name Category Prize Year
Peter Agre Chemistry 2003
Frances H. Arnold Chemistry 2018
Paul Berg Chemistry 1980
Thomas R. Cech Chemistry 1989
Martin Chalfie Chemistry 2008
Emmanuelle Charpentier Chemistry 2020
Aaron Ciechanover Chemistry 2004
Elias James Corey Chemistry 1990
Robert F. Curl Jr. Chemistry 1996
Johann Deisenhofer Chemistry 1988
Jennifer A. Doudna Chemistry 2020
Jacques Dubochet Chemistry 2017
Gerhard Ertl Chemistry 2007
Joachim Frank Chemistry 2017
Richard Henderson Chemistry 2017
Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry 1986
Avram Hershko Chemistry 2004
Roald Hoffmann Chemistry 1981
Robert Huber Chemistry 1988
Brian K. Kobilka Chemistry 2012
Roger D. Kornberg Chemistry 2006
Yuan T. Lee Chemistry 1986
Robert J. Lefkowitz Chemistry 2012
Jean-Marie Lehn Chemistry 1987
Michael Levitt Chemistry 2013
Tomas Lindahl Chemistry 2015
Benjamin List Chemistry 2021
Roderick MacKinnon Chemistry 2003
David W.C. MacMillan Chemistry 2021
Paul L. Modrich Chemistry 2015
William E. Moerner Chemistry 2014
Ryoji Noyori Chemistry 2001
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry 2009
Jean-Pierre Sauvage Chemistry 2016
K. Barry Sharpless Chemistry 2001
Dan Shechtman Chemistry 2011
Hideki Shirakawa Chemistry 2000
Sir James Fraser Stoddart Chemistry 2016
Sir John E. Walker Chemistry 1997
Arieh Warshel Chemistry 2013
M. Stanley Whittingham Chemistry 2019
Kurt Wuthrich Chemistry 2002
Angus S. Deaton Economics 2015
Robert F. Engle III Economics 2003
Eugene F. Fama Economics 2013
Oliver Hart Economics 2016
Bengt Holmstrom Economics 2016
Finn E. Kydland Economics 2004
Eric S. Maskin Economics 2007
Daniel L. McFadden Economics 2000
Robert C. Merton Economics 1997
Paul R. Milgrom Economics 2020
Roger B. Myerson Economics 2007
Edmund S. Phelps Economics 2006
Alvin E. Roth Economics 2012
Robert J. Shiller Economics 2013
Kazuo Ishiguro Literature 2017
Elfriede Jelinek Literature 2004
Herta Muller Literature 2009
Orhan Pamuk Literature 2006
Wole Soyinka Literature 1986
James P. Allison Medicine 2018
Harvey J. Alter Medicine 2020
Werner Arber Medicine 1978
Richard Axel Medicine 2004
David Baltimore Medicine 1975
Bruce A. Beutler Medicine 2011
Elizabeth H. Blackburn Medicine 2009
Michael S. Brown Medicine 1985
Linda B. Buck Medicine 2004
William C. Campbell Medicine 2015
Mario R. Capecchi Medicine 2007
Andrew Z. Fire Medicine 2006
Joseph L. Goldstein Medicine 1985
Carol W. Greider Medicine 2009
Jeffrey Connor Hall Medicine 2017
Leland H. Hartwell Medicine 2001
Harald zur Hausen Medicine 2008
Jules A. Hoffmann Medicine 2011
H. Robert Horvitz Medicine 2002
Sir Michael Houghton Medicine 2020
Tim Hunt Medicine 2001
Louis J. Ignarro Medicine 1998
David Julius Medicine 2021
William G. Kaelin Jr. Medicine 2019
Eric R. Kandel Medicine 2000
Barry J. Marshall Medicine 2005
Craig C. Mello Medicine 2006
Edvard Moser Medicine 2014
May-Britt Moser Medicine 2014
Ferid Murad Medicine 1998
Erwin Neher Medicine 1991
Sir Paul M. Nurse Medicine 2001
John O'Keefe Medicine 2014
Yoshinori Ohsumi Medicine 2016
Ardem Patapoutian Medicine 2021
Stanley B. Prusiner Medicine 1997
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe Medicine 2019
Charles M. Rice Medicine 2020
Sir Richard J. Roberts Medicine 1993
Michael Rosbash Medicine 2017
James E. Rothman Medicine 2013
Bert Sakmann Medicine 1991
Randy W. Schekman Medicine 2013
Gregg L. Semenza Medicine 2019
Phillip A. Sharp Medicine 1993
Hamilton O. Smith Medicine 1978
Jack W. Szostak Medicine 2009
Susumu Tonegawa Medicine 1987
Harold E. Varmus Medicine 1989
Eric F. Wieschaus Medicine 1995
Torsten N. Wiesel Medicine 1981
Shinya Yamanaka Medicine 2012
Michael W. Young Medicine 2017
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Peace 1996
Shirin Ebadi Peace 2003
Leymah Roberta Gbowee Peace 2011
Tawakkol Karman Peace 2011
The 14th Dalai Lama Peace 1989
Maria Ressa Peace 2021
Oscar Arias Sanchez Peace 1987
Juan Manuel Santos Peace 2016
Kailash Satyarthi Peace 2014
Jody Williams Peace 1997
Hiroshi Amano Physics 2014
Barry Clark Barish Physics 2017
J. Georg Bednorz Physics 1987
Steven Chu Physics 1997
Jerome I. Friedman Physics 1990
Andre Geim Physics 2010
Reinhard Genzel Physics 2020
Andrea Ghez Physics 2020
Sheldon Glashow Physics 1979
David J. Gross Physics 2004
John L. Hall Physics 2005
Serge Haroche Physics 2012
Klaus Hasselmann Physics 2021
Gerardus 't Hooft Physics 1999
Takaaki Kajita Physics 2015
Wolfgang Ketterle Physics 2001
Klaus von Klitzing Physics 1985
J. Michael Kosterlitz Physics 2016
Anthony J. Leggett Physics 2003
John C. Mather Physics 2006
Michel Mayor Physics 2019
Arthur B. McDonald Physics 2015
Gerard Mourou Physics 2018
James Peebles Physics 2019
William D. Phillips Physics 1997
H. David Politzer Physics 2004
Adam G. Riess Physics 2011
Brian P. Schmidt Physics 2011
Donna Strickland Physics 2018
Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Physics 1993
Kip Stephen Thorne Physics 2017
Daniel C. Tsui Physics 1998
Rainer Weiss Physics 2017
Frank Wilczek Physics 2004
David J. Wineland Physics 2012