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Bertrand Russell: Nobel Prize
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On this day in 1970 Bertrand Russell died, aged ninety-seven. Like Henri Bergson before him, Russell won his 1950 Nobel Prize in literature without ever having published any. In presenting the award, the most that the Swedish Academy could offer to justify their selection of a mathematician-philosopher-social activist was the view that Russell often wrote as "the outspoken hero in a Shaw comedy" talked, and that his commitment to "rationality and humanity" was "in the spirit of Nobel's intention." FULL STORY »
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During the post-war era, Russell, in his seventies, experienced a brief halcyon period as a figure of fame, almost returning to the Establishment. He was awarded the OM and the Nobel Prize for literature, invited to lecture all round the world and given the chance to become a pundit or. the expanding media of radio and television. His undiminished vigour while on a lecture tour in Norway enabled him to swim to safety when his plane came down in Trondheim Fjord. The remainder of his life was dominated by his detestation of war and his crusade against nuclear weapons. The zeal of his conviction and the various tactics which he was prepared to adopt soon removed him from his pedestal and put him back in the controversial zones of opposition where he had spent most of his life. He said in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize for literature.
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In 1944 Russell returned to England and was reelected a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Honors began to pour in upon him. He was made an honorary fellow of the British Academy in 1949, and in the same year he received the Order of Merit. In 1950 Russell won the Nobel Prize for literature, being cited for "his many-sided and significant writings, in which he appeared as the champion of humanity and freedom of thought."
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Russell returned to England in 1944 and was reinstated as a fellow of Trinity College. Although he abandoned pacifism to support the Allied cause in World War II (1939-1945), he became an ardent and active opponent of nuclear weapons. In 1949 he was awarded the Order of Merit by King George VI. Russell received the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature and was cited as “the champion of humanity and freedom of thought.” He led a movement in the late 1950s advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain, and at the age of 89 he was imprisoned after an antinuclear demonstration. He died on February 2, 1970.
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Russell was given the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature ("in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought") in 1950. He remained a prominent public figure until his death from influenza at age 97 in 1970. Bertrand Russell once said, "So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence."
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The BRS awards annual Prizes for the best new papers about Russell by undergraduates, graduate students and non-academics. It ... bestows an annual BRS Book Award for the best new book in Russell studies. And it bestows an annual BRS Award to an individual or an organization whose work best furthers the interests and commitments of Bertrand Russell. The awards are presented at the Annual Meeting.
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