Nobel laureates called on Russia to cancel the law on gay propaganda
Twenty-seven winners of the Nobel prize signed an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with a request to cancel the law on "gay propaganda". The text of the open message on Tuesday, January 14, publishes English print edition of The Independent.
Among put their own signature under the letter to the President and people of Russia" was included John Maxwell Coetzee, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 2003, a geneticist Paul nurse, who received the Nobel prize in medicine in 2002, and another chemist sir Harold Kroto, Nobel peace winner, 1996. Directly sir Kroto together with actor sir Ian McKellen were the organizers of writing open letters against the law-gay propaganda.
"Disobedience is never easy, but we expect that, disagreed with fresh legislation, we encourage the Russian government to defend in the XXI century humanitarian, political and democratic principles, the embodiment of which did Mikhail Gorbachev", - is told in an open letter.
The full list put signatures under the open letter:
Mairead Maguire (the peace prize, 1976)
Eric Allin Cornell (physics, 2001)
Sheldon Lee Glashow (physics, 1979)
Brian Josephson (physics, 1973)
Martin Perl (physics, 1995)
Roald Hoffman (khimiya, 1981)
Gerhard ertle (chemistry, 2007)
Suzumi Tonegawa (medicine/physiology, 1987)
Tony Leggett (physics, 2003)
Paul nurse (medicine, 2002)
Dudley Gersbach (khimiya, 1986)
Robert Curl (chemistry, 1996)
Harold Kroto (chemistry, 1996)
John Maxwell Coetzee (literature, 2003)
Martin Chalfie (chemistry, 2008)
Richards Roberts (medicine/physiology, 1993)
John polani (khimiya, 1986)
Edmond Fischer (medicine/physiology, 1992)
Timothy hunt (medicine/physiology, 2001)
Jack Szostak (medicine/physiology, 2009)
Eric Viscous (medicine/physiology, 1995)
Leon Lederman (physics, 1988)
Peter Agra (chemistry, 2003)
John Sulston (medicine/physiology, 2002)
Herta Muller (literature, 2009)
Brian Schmidt (physics, 2011)
Thomas Steitz (chemistry, 2009)
The law prohibiting propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among under age was adopted in Russia in late June 2013. Russian "law on gay propaganda" has sparked criticism from human rights organizations and almost all the Western politicians. Special resonance of this law outside the Russian Federation received in connection with the Winter Olympics, which will take place in Sochi in early February 2014. A number of political figures and social activists because of this law called for a boycott of the Games in Sochi.
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