The following is a 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
[edit]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.[1]
On 1 March 2022, an open letter from a group of Nobel Prize laureates was published in support of Ukraine.[2] More than 200 Nobel laureates signed the letter, was published simultaneously in English, Russian and Ukrainian.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]
The letter was drafted by Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann,[note 1] 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.[2]
List of signatories
[edit]This is a list of signatories to the open letter, as of 1 April 2022.[3][9]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Kofman, Michael (2024). "Chapter Six The Russia-Ukraine War Military Operations and Battlefield Dynamics". In Brands, Hal (ed.). War in Ukraine: Conflict, Strategy, and the Return of a Fractured World. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-1-4214-4986-9. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
From this perspective, the Russia-Ukraine War consists of a "special military operation", in which Russian forces attempted to conduct a coup de main by decapitating Ukraine's leadership, isolating Ukrainian forces, and rapidly occupying the country. This operation can be periodized to February 24–March 25, 2022, by which point Russian forces are already withdrawing from Kyiv and beginning to redeploy for a more conventional campaign in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
- 1 2 Hovis, Kathy (3 March 2022). "Nobel laureates show support for Ukraine". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
- 1 2 "206 Laureates Supporting Ukraine". nlccampaigns.org. Retrieved 15 May 2026.
- ↑ "ロシアの武力侵攻は「不当、残虐で無益」とノーベル賞受賞者 日本関係の9人含む約160人が抗議声明". Science Portal - 科学技術の最新情報サイト「サイエンスポータル」.
- ↑ "ノーベル賞受賞者ら、ロシア非難 | 新潟日報デジタルプラス". Archived from the original on 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
- ↑ "Nobel Campaigns - Nobel Laureate Support for Ukraine". www.nlcampaigns.org.
- ↑ Roald Hoffmann, interviewed by David J. Caruso in Cornell University on October 16, 2014. Oral History Transcript 0925. Philadelphia, PA: Science History Institute. 2020.
- ↑ "An open letter in support of Ukraine". The Economist. 3 March 2022.
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