Andrei Sakharov
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Biography
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
Although he spent his career in physics in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, overseeing the development of thermonuclear weapons, Sakharov also did fundamental work in understanding particle physics, magnetism, and physical cosmology. Sakharov is mostly known for his political activism for individual freedom, human rights, civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union, for which he was deemed a dissident and faced persecution from the Soviet establishment.
In his memory, the Sakharov Prize was established and is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- people's deputy of union of socialist soviet republics
Employers / organisations
- Lebedev Physical Institute
Family
- Spouse(s)
- Yelena Bonner
- Parents
- Dmitri Ivanovich SakharovYekaterina Sakharova
Awards & honours (24+)
- Stalin Prize
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Order of Lenin
- Hero of Socialist Labour
- Fritt Ord Award
- Humanist of the Year
- Elliott Cresson Medal
- Akademiepenning
- Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award
- Lenin Prize
- Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
- Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Dr. Tomalla Prize
- Leo Szilard Lectureship Award
- Albert Einstein Peace Prize
- honorary doctor of the Ohio State University
- Honorary doctor of the University of Groningen
- honorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Quick answers about Andrei Sakharov
- How old was Andrei Sakharov?
- Andrei Sakharov died on December 14, 1989 at the age of 68.
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- Andrei Sakharov was born on May 21, 1921.
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- Andrei Sakharov was born in Moscow.
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- Andrei Sakharov is a citizen of Soviet Union, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.
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- Who has Andrei Sakharov been married to?
- According to Wikidata, Andrei Sakharov's spouse is or was Yelena Bonner.
