Andrei Sakharov

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Nobel laureate Soviet dissident human human rights activist nuclear physicist peace activist physicist

Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist turned human rights activist and dissident, widely known as the "father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb" and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

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Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nobel laureate → Soviet dissident → human → human rights activist → nuclear physicist → peace activist → physicist →
advocated	civil liberties in the Soviet Union → nuclear disarmament → political pluralism → rule of law →
authored	Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom →
awardReceived	Lenin Prize → Nobel Peace Prize → Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (eponym) → Stalin Prize →
birthCountry	Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Soviet Union →
birthDate	1921-05-21 →
birthPlace	Moscow →
burialPlace	Vostryakovskoye Cemetery →
causeOfExile	opposition to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan →
citizenship	Soviet Union →
countryOfExile	Soviet Union NERFINISHED →
deathDate	1989-12-14 →
deathPlace	Moscow →
educatedAt	Moscow State University →
employer	Lebedev Physical Institute → Soviet Academy of Sciences →
exileEndYear	1986 →
exileStartYear	1980 →
fieldOfWork	nuclear physics → theoretical physics →
knownFor	development of the Soviet hydrogen bomb → human rights activism in the Soviet Union → opposition to nuclear proliferation →
languageOfWork	Russian →
memberOf	Academy of Sciences of the USSR →
movement	Soviet dissident movement →
name	Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov →
nickname	father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb →
NobelPrizeCategory	Peace →
NobelPrizeYear	1975 →
placeOfExile	Gorky →
positionHeld	People's Deputy of the USSR → full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR →
religion	atheism →
spouse	Klavdia Vikhireva → Yelena Bonner →

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Novodevichy Cemetery →	burialPlaceOf
Moscow State University →	hasNotableAlumni
Andrei Sakharov ("Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov") →	name
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought →	namedAfter
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ("Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov") →	namedForNotability
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ("physicist Andrei Sakharov") →	namedForOccupation
Lomonosov Gold Medal →	notableLaureate
Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union →	notableMember