Albert Bigelow

Albert Bigelow
Born(1906-05-01)May 1, 1906
DiedOctober 6, 1993(1993-10-06) (aged 87)
Alma materHarvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spouses
Josephine Rotch
(m. 1929; died 1929)
Sylvia Weld
(m. 1931⁠–⁠1993)
Children3
Parent(s)Albert Francis Bigelow
Gladys Williams

Albert Smith Bigelow (1 May 1906 – 6 October 1993) was a pacifist and former United States Navy Commander, who came to prominence in the 1950s as the skipper of the Golden Rule, the first vessel to attempt disruption of a nuclear test in protest against nuclear weapons.[1]

  1. ^ Lawrence S Wittner (1993). The Struggle Against the Bomb: Volume Two, Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. Stanford University Press. p. 55. ISBN 9780804729185. Retrieved 24 July 2009.