Andrei Sakharov
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Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist who played a key role in developing his country's hydrogen bomb but later became one of the Soviet Union's most prominent critics, fighting for human rights and nuclear disarmament until his death in 1989. His life matters because it illustrates both the scientific achievements and moral conflicts of the Cold War era, and because his courageous activism helped establish the modern human rights movement in the Soviet bloc.
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- Born
- 21 May 1921
- Died
- 14 December 1989
- Works
- 62
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- Andrej Sacharow
- Prisiminimai
- מחשבות על קידמה, דו-קיום בשלום, חרות הרוח
- A. Sakharov v borʹbe za mir
- Размышления о прогрессе, мирном сосуществовании и интеллектуальной свободе
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- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
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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.
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