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Feb 9, 2010 · In Moscow, Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who helped build the USSR’s first hydrogen bomb, is arrested after criticizing the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. He ...
Awarded for the first time in 1988 to Nelson Mandela and Anatoli Marchenko, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is the highest tribute paid by the European Union to human rights work. It gives recognition to individuals, groups and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to protecting freedom of thought.
May 23, 2018 · SAKHAROV, ANDREI. Theoretical physicist and the "father of the Soviet H-bomb," Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), who was born in Moscow on May 21, became a prominent human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Sakharov's father was a physics teacher and popular science author.
Dec 15, 1989 · Andrei D. Sakharov was born on May 21, 1921, into a Moscow family of cultured and liberal intellectuals. This, he said, was a determining factor in shaping his world outlook. His father, Dmitri ...
Jul 25, 2018 · Andrei Sakharov, pictured in 1977, was transformed from the Soviet Union’s most brilliant young nuclear physicist to one of the world’s best-qualified crusaders against nuclear testing.
Dec 15, 1989 · Andrei D. Sakharov, the indomitable human-rights campaigner who prevailed in official exile to become a relentless prod to the Soviet Union's new congress, died apparently of a heart attack late ...
