International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War

Founding

In December 1980, a historic meeting was held in Geneva among three American physicians – Drs. Lown, Muller, and Chivian – and three Soviet physicians – Drs. Chazov, Leonid Ilyin, and Mikhail Kuzin – to lay the international foundations of IPPNW. A few short years later, the organization was awarded the 1984 UNESCO Peace Education Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Through the decades, IPPNW and PSR have continued as partners in promoting a broad-based, free-flowing dialogue among physicians, health workers, and medical students – East, West, North, and South – in pursuit of a more peaceful world without nuclear weapons.