Andrei Sakharov - Nobel Peace Prize — 1975
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Andrei Sakharov

Prize
Nobel Peace Prize — 1975
for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations
Citizenship
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet RepublicRussian Socialist Federative Soviet RepublicSoviet UnionSoviet Union
Languages
Russian
date of birth
5/21/1921
place of birth
Moscow
date of death
12/14/1989
place of death
Moscow
Lived
68 years

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occupation
  • human rights defender
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
  • politician
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • MSU Faculty of Physics
    • start time: 1938
    • end time: 1942
employer
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • start time: 1947
    • end time: 1950
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • start time: 1968
    • end time: 12/23/1986
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • start time: 12/23/1986
position held
  • people's deputy of union of socialist soviet republics
member of
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1953
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1973
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1978
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
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