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Paul Doty is seen standing by his founder’s photo in the Belfer Center hallway during a 2005 gathering. Doty founded what is now the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in 1974.
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Paul Doty, 91, founder of Belfer Center
‘A lifelong peacemaker, building bridges between Soviet and American scientists’
Paul Doty, the founder of Harvard Kennedy School‘s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, died Dec. 5 at the age of 91.
Graham Allison, former dean of the Kennedy School and director of the Belfer Center, advised colleagues of Doty’s passing: “Paul was a great man who had a great life and who made huge contributions to many of us personally, to the institutions of which we are a part, and to the purposes we care about. As we celebrated his 90th birthday in June 2010 I noted that he was a ‘serial institutional builder,’ having ‘entrepreneured’ not only today’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, but prior to that Harvard’s biochemistry department. Paul was a lifelong peacemaker, building bridges between Soviet and American scientists and promoting nuclear disarmament since the 1950s — work that helped the Pugwash Conferences earn the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995.”
To learn more about Doty’s work and read his full obituary, visit the Belfer Center website.
