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Andrei Sakharov

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Andrei Sakharov

d. 1989

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

Late 20th Century

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Biography

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.

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1921
Birth

Russian physicist (d. 1989)

May 21 →
1955
Event

The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.

November 22 →
1975
Event

Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end the nuclear arms race.

October 9 →
1986
Event

Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

December 19 →
1989
Death

Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)

December 14 →

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