Andrei Sakharov

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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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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
surface form: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (eponym)

Stalin Prize
birthCountry Russian SFSR
surface form: 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
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 Soviet Academy of Sciences
surface form: Academy of Sciences of the USSR
movement Soviet Jewry movement
surface form: Soviet dissident movement
name Andrei Sakharov self-linksurface differs
surface form: 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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this entity surface form: Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov
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this entity surface form: Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich influenced Andrei Sakharov
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Yelena Bonner spouse Andrei Sakharov
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Klavdia Vikhireva spouse Andrei Sakharov