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Andrei Sakharov

Also known as AndAndrei D. Sakharovrei Dmitrievich Sakharov

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

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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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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize1975
“for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations”

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Official website

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Юный Андрей Сахаров занимается в школе на дому и впервые влюбляется в физику, а в СССР укрепляется тоталитарный режим.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Andrey
Gender: male
Citizenship: Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Place of birth: Moscow
Place of death: Moscow
Spouse: Yelena Bonner
Occupation: politician
Educated at: MSU Faculty of Physics
Employer: Lebedev Physical Institute
Languages spoken: Russian
Religion: atheism
Doctoral advisor: Igor Tamm
Field of work: physics
Official website: www.sakharov.space
Image: RIAN archive 25981 Academician Sakharov.jpg

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cause of death: myocardial infarction
Commons category: Andrei Sakharov
date of birth: 1921-05-21
place of burial: Vostryakovo Cemetery
date of death: 1989-12-14
manner of death: natural causes
member of: American Philosophical Society
topic's main category: Category:Andrei Sakharov
name in native language: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров
Commons gallery: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров
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ethnic group: Russians
subject has role: prisoner of conscience
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interested in: nuclear physics

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Encyclopedic overview

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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