18 Facts About Helen Caldicott

Helen Mary Caldicott was born on 7 August 1938 and is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate.

Helen Caldicott founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, and military action in general.

Helen Caldicott was born on 7 August 1938, in Melbourne, Australia, the daughter of factory manager Philip Broinowski and Mary Mona Enyd Broinowski, an interior designer.

Helen Caldicott attended public school, except for four years at Fintona Girls' School at Balwyn, a private secondary school.

Helen Caldicott taught paediatrics at the Harvard Medical School from 1977 to 1980.

Helen Caldicott informed Australian trade unions about the medical and military dangers of uranium mining, which led to the three-year banning of the mining and export of uranium.

Helen Caldicott was herself nominated for the Nobel Prize by Linus Pauling, himself a Nobel winner.

Helen Caldicott stood as an independent candidate for the Australian House of Representatives at the 1990 federal election, contesting the Division of Richmond, against the Leader of the National Party, Charles Blunt.

In 2002 Helen Caldicott released The New Nuclear Danger, a commentary on the George Bush Military-Industrial Complex.

Monbiot expressed great concern at what he saw as a failure by Helen Caldicott to provide adequate justification for any of her arguments.

In 1992, Caldicott received the 1992 Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston for her leadership in the worldwide disarmament movement.

Helen Caldicott was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2001.

Helen Caldicott was awarded the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom in 2003, and in 2006, the Peace Organisation of Australia presented her with the inaugural Australian Peace Prize "for her longstanding commitment to raising awareness about the medical and environmental hazards of the nuclear age".

Helen Caldicott is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, a progressive think tank in Spain.

Helen Caldicott serves on the Advisory Council of the Nuclear Age Peace.

Helen Caldicott has appeared in numerous documentary films and television programs.

Helen Caldicott is featured along with foreign affairs experts, space security activists and military officials in interviews in Denis Delestrac's 2010 feature documentary Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space.

The 2013 documentary Pandora's Promise features footage of Helen Caldicott, interspersed with counter-points to her assertions regarding the health impacts of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.