Andrei Sakharov
1921 CE–1989 CE · Moscow
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world. Although he spent his career in physics in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, overseeing the development of thermonuclear weapons, Sakharov also did fundamental work in understanding particle physics, magnetism, and physical cosmology. Sakharov is mostly known for his political activism for individual freedom, human rights, civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union, for which he was deemed a dissident and faced persecution from the Soviet establishment. In his memory, the Sakharov Prize was established and is awarded annually by the European Parliament for people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms.
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- Eugene Wigner· 1902 CE–1995 CE
- Ernest Walton· 1903 CE–1995 CE
- Hans Bethe· 1906 CE–2005 CE
- André Weil· 1906 CE–1998 CE
- Albert Sabin· 1906 CE–1993 CE
- Grace Hopper· 1906 CE–1992 CE
- Edward Teller· 1908 CE–2003 CE
- John Bardeen· 1908 CE–1991 CE
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar· 1910 CE–1995 CE
- Dorothy Hodgkin· 1910 CE–1994 CE
- William Shockley· 1910 CE–1989 CE
- Shiing-Shen Chern· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Chien-Shiung Wu· 1912 CE–1997 CE
- Glenn Seaborg· 1912 CE–1999 CE
- Paul Erdős· 1913 CE–1996 CE
- Jonas Salk· 1914 CE–1995 CE
- Kiyoshi Itō· 1915 CE–2008 CE
- Claude Shannon· 1916 CE–2001 CE
- Francis Crick· 1916 CE–2004 CE
- Maurice Wilkins· 1916 CE–2004 CE
- Robert Burns Woodward· 1917 CE–1979 CE
- Richard Feynman· 1918 CE–1988 CE
- Harish-Chandra· 1923 CE–1983 CE
- Abdus Salam· 1926 CE–1996 CE
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- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Gerald Ford· 1913 CE–2006 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Leonid Brezhnev· 1906 CE–1982 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- Lyndon B. Johnson· 1908 CE–1973 CE
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