photo Andrei Sakharov

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 Republic Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic Soviet Union Soviet 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
member of
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
    • start time: 1/1/1953
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1/1/1973
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1/1/1978
  • French Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
employer
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • end time: 12/23/1986
    • start time: 1/1/1968
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • start time: 12/23/1986
  • Lebedev Physical Institute
    • end time: 1/1/1950
    • start time: 1/1/1947
educated at
  • MSU Faculty of Physics
    • end time: 1/1/1942
    • start time: 1/1/1938
position held
  • people's deputy of union of socialist soviet republics
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • politician
  • physicist
  • nuclear physicist
  • human rights defender
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