Andrei Sakharov

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.

Awards: 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 Education: MSU Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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