Timeline Thursday 23 May 1946

Events on Thursday 23 May 1946 3

• 1946 – 1951 Chairs the atomic scientists The Emergency Committee and world government Einstein led the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, formed to warn the public that the bomb had changed everything except our ways of thinking. He argued for international control of nuclear weapons through a world authority. The campaign raised money and alarm but little policy.
• 1946 – present Ursula Hegi German-American Novelist German-born American novelist whose work explored silence, guilt and identity in Nazi-era and postwar Germany. Born in Dusseldorf just over a year after the war ended, she grew up surrounded by the physical evidence of destruction but in a society that refused to speak about what had happened. She immigrated to the United States at 18 and drew on her conflicted heritage to write novels including the bestselling Stones from the River, centred on Trudi Montag, a dwarf navigating life in a small German town during the rise of the Third Reich.
• 1946 Ursula Hegi born in Dusseldorf Born Ursula Koch in Dusseldorf, in the British occupation zone of Germany, just over a year after the end of World War II. Her father Heinrich had served as a soldier on the Eastern Front.