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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...
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  • and freedom of thought. Named after Russian scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, the prize was established in December 1988 by the European Parliament...
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  • 1979 Sakharov, a main-belt asteroid named for Andrei Sakharov Sakharov (film), a 1984 TV film starring Jason Robards as Andrei Sakharov Sakharov Prize...
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  • tested. The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov oversaw the project at Arzamas-16, while the main work of design was by Sakharov, Viktor Adamsky, Yuri Babayev...
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  • The Andrei Sakharov Prize is a prize that is to be awarded every second year by the American Physical Society since 2006. The recipients are chosen for...
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    1976, he organized the Moscow Helsinki Group and became its chairman. Andrei Sakharov praised Orlov for systematically documenting Soviet violations of the...
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  • Slovenian badminton player Andrei Rublev, Russian painter Andrey Rublev (tennis), Russian tennis player Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist...
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    rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic...
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    human rights 2016: Human Rights Award of the City of Weimar 2018: Andrei Sakharov Prize from the American Physical Society 2022: Recognition as one of...
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    been described as "one of the great mysteries in physics". In 1967, Andrei Sakharov proposed a set of three necessary conditions that a baryon-generating...
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  • Union set up a group to work on the hydrogen bomb. In August 1948, Andrei Sakharov postulated the sloyka, or layer cake method, which consisted of alternating...
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    Russian poet, poetry translator and activist. She was a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage.[citation needed] She was born in...
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    academician Andrei Sakharov. According to Dmitri Volkogonov and Harold Shukman, Andropov approved the numerous trials of human rights activists such as Andrei Amalrik...
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  • The Andrei Sakharov Freedom Award, officially known as the Sakharov Freedom Award and named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established...
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    continued to press for greater liberalization. On 23 December 1986 Andrei Sakharov, the most prominent Soviet dissident, returned to Moscow shortly after...
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  • career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky...
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    the quasi-particle of sound: the phonon; and in 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, proposed the Tokamak system. Igor Tamm was born in 1895 in Vladivostok...
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  • Bose–Einstein condensates. The concept was originally proposed by Andrei Sakharov in 1967. Sakharov observed that many condensed matter systems give rise to emergent...
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    released in 2022, in which he also took part. Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov are among those who suffered for speaking out against the USSR. In...
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    writer of the Soviet period Andrei Rublev, Russian icon painter Andrey Rublev (tennis), Russian tennis player Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist...
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    the Soviet physicist Oleg Lavrentiev in a mid-1950 paper. In 1951, Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm proposed to modify the scheme by proposing a theoretical...
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    It is named after the Soviet physicist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. Due to the frequent traffic congestion at the intersection, a project...
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  • smuggled out of the Soviet Union by a network of dissidents, including Andrei Sakharov and Vladimir Voinovich, and first published in the West in 1980, before...
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    sent Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov a letter expressing his support for the latter's stance on human rights. In the wake of Carter's letter to Sakharov, the...
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  • Sakharov Prize may also refer to: Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS), a prize awarded every second year by the American Physical Society since 2006 Andrei Sakharov...
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    winning human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. It was founded by the "Public Commission to Protect the Legacy of Andrei Sakharov", an international non-governmental...
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  • later life of the Russian nuclear scientist Andrei Sakharov, played by Jason Robards. In 1966, Sakharov signs the “Letter of Twenty-Five” to the 23rd...
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    and a positron. The proton decay hypothesis was first formulated by Andrei Sakharov in 1967. Despite significant experimental effort, proton decay has...
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    section on the W88 below). The first Soviet fusion design, developed by Andrei Sakharov and Vitaly Ginzburg in 1949 (before the Soviets had a working fission...
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    Ginzburg or Andrei Sakharov until very late, practically months before publication.[citation needed] Initially both Ginzburg and Sakharov estimated such...
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