P007916 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2025-11-14 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2025-11-14 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007916b.htm corporateBody International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons AACR2 ICAN 2006 A group of peace activists, scientists, doctors, and environmentalists from Melbourne launched ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, in April 2007, and in 10 years broke through the barriers of half a century of failure. Their efforts to create and negotiate a UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons saw them awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.

Australia's 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was won by ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an effort launched in Melbourne in 2007, and a unique confluence of activists - scientists, peace activists, environmentalists, and doctors - banding together.

They included Associate Professor Tilman Ruff OAM, David Sweeney, Dimity Hawkins AM, Dr Bill Williams, and Sue Wareham who took up an idea that had been proposed by their Malaysian colleague Dr Ronald McCoy.

 Ruff, Tilman (1955 - )

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 Nobel Laureates, Australia (1901 - ) 'International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation