Andrei Sakharov
Scientist, Academic
1921 – 1989
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Who was Andrei Sakharov?
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Russian nuclear physicist, Soviet dissident and human rights activist.
He became renowned as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The Sakharov Prize, which is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms, is named in his honour.
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- Born
- May 21, 1921
Moscow - Also known as
- Andreĭ Sakharov
- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- Spouses
- Yelena Bonner
(1972 - 1989/12/14)
- Yelena Bonner
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Russian
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russia
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Profession
- Education
- Moscow State University
- Lebedev Physical Institute
- Died
- Dec 14, 1989
Moscow
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on July 23, 2013
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