Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989 ) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

A discussion about the methods of the political use of technology in the creation of a super-bomb began the ideological divergence between Andrei Sakharov and Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1973 and 1974 the Soviet media campaign targeted both Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In 1973 Andrei Sakharov was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1974 was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.

An Andrei Sakharov prize is also to be awarded by the American Physical Society every second year from 2006, " to recognize outstanding leadership and / or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights ".

The Andrei Sakharov Prize For Writer's Civic Courage was established in October 1990.

The Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center, established at Brandeis University in 1993, are now housed at Harvard University.

Statue of Andrei Sakharov at Saint Petersburg State University.

* During the 1980s, the block of 16th Street NW between L and M streets, in front of the Soviet embassy, in Washington, D. C. was renamed " Andrei Sakharov Place " as a form of protest against his 1980 arrest and detention.

* Intersection of Ventura blvd and Laurel Canyon blvd in Studio City, Los Angeles is named Andrei Sakharov Square.

Andrei Sakharov with a group of Soviet dissidents, Sakharov is the first from right, the first from the left is Naum Meiman from Moscow Helsinki Group

* Sakharov, Andrei, Facets of a Life, Frontieres, 1991.

* Bergman, Jay, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov, Cornell University Press, 2009.

* Sakharov, Andrei, Collected Scientific Works, Marcel Dekker Inc., 1982.

* Lozansky, Edward D., Andrei Sakharov and Peace, Avon, 1985.

* Gorelik, Gennady, with Antonina W. Bouis, The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom.

* Andrei Sakharov // New dictionary of scientific biography / Noretta Koertge, ed.

* The Andrei Sakharov Archives at the Houghton Library

* Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights.

* Andrei Sakharov: Photo-chronology

* David Holloway on: Andrei Sakharov.

* Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow Virtual Tour.

* Annotated bibliography of Andrei Sakharov from the Alsos Digital Library.

Following Sakharov's death on 14 December 1989, she established the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, and the Sakharov Archives in Moscow.

In 1970 he, along with Valery Chalidze and Andrei Tverdokhlebov, was one of the founders of the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR and came under increasing pressure from the government.

* In November 1970, the Committee on Human Rights in the USSR was founded by Andrei Sakharov and other Soviet dissidents to publicize Soviet violations of human rights.

He was also an important dissident figure under the Soviet regime, a public supporter of Andrei Sakharov's Human Rights Committee from 1970.

He has won many awards and medals, including the Medal of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, with Andrei Linde and Paul Steinhardt and the Eddington Medal in 1996, and the 2009 Isaac Newton Medal, awarded by the British Institute of Physics.

A production starring Irene Worth as Ranevskaya, Raul Julia as Lopakhin, Mary Beth Hurt as Anya and Meryl Streep as Dunyasha, directed by Andrei Şerban and featuring Tony Award-winning costumes and set by Santo Loquasto, opened at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1977.

* The Andrei Konchalovsky Production Center

At the end of July, the directorate was established and entered in its files cases of all Soviet dissidents including Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

In 1838 they established the first Romanian language newspaper Gazeta Transilvaniei and the first Romanian institutions of higher education ( Școlile Centrale Greco-Ortodoxe-" The Greek-Orthodox Central Schools ", today named after Andrei Șaguna ).

According to Moscow psychiatrist Alexander Danilin, the nosological approach in the Moscow psychiatric school established by Andrei Snezhnevsky ( whom Danilin considered a political offender ) boiled down to the ability to diagnose schizophrenia ; psychiatry was not science, but a system of opinions by which millions of lives were affected by a diagnosis of " sluggish schizophrenia ".

At the end of July, the directorate was established and entered in its files cases of all Soviet dissidents including Andrei Sakharov and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, named after Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, was established in December 1988 by the European Parliament as a means to honour individuals or organisations who have dedicated their lives to the defence of human rights and freedom of thought.

They kill Andrei Ulmeyda, a Texan postal worker who established a successful company based on the Yakumo, when he becomes infected with the Heaven Smile virus.

Although Toby Room features contributions from established writers such as fantasy writer Robin Hobb and NPR commentator / author Andrei Codrescu, the majority of those who have written or contributed to Toby Room do not come from a journalist background, but are interested in talking about the things they know, that they might not otherwise have an opportunity to explore or share with the public.

First established in 1827 as the Advance Officers ' Class of the Imperial Russian Navy and later the Nikolayev Naval Academy and reorganized as the Petrograd Maritime Academy in 1917, and at various times renamed as the WPRF Naval Academy, the Marshal of the Soviet Union Kliment Voroshilov Naval Academy and the Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko Naval Academy, it gained its current name and title in 1990.

Andrei stopped at Litowski Place and looked around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings.

Working alongside military commander Andrei Zhdanov as German advances threatened to cut off Leningrad he displayed considerable personal bravery, prancing around in defiance of heavy shelling at Ivanovskoye ; at one point he rallied retreating troops and personally led a counter-attack against German tanks armed only with a pistol.

The first attempt at underwater exploration of the North Pole was made by a Russian firefighter and diver Andrei Rozhkov with a support of Diving Club of Moscow State University on April 22, 1998 but ended in fatality.

A team of scientists at the Australian National University led by Professor Andrei Rode claims to have created a device similar to a tractor beam to move small particles 1. 5 meters through the air.

In the summer of 1988, Binoche returned to the stage in an acclaimed production of Anton Checkov's The Seagull directed by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky at Théâtre De L ' odéon in Paris.

The New Republic adds that " Google seems to have arrived at the same link that was obvious to Andrei Sakharov: the one between science and freedom ," referring to the move as " heroism.

Trying to improve the condition of Christians in general and Catholics in particular behind the Iron Curtain, he engaged in dialogue with Communist authorities at several levels, receiving Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and USSR President Nikolai Podgorny in 1966 and 1967 in the Vatican.

Andrei Kirilenko represented his home country of Russia at the 2008 games.

Several leading politicians at the time such as Alexei Kosygin and Andrei Gromyko were against intervention.

This view is disputed by authors, such as Russian economists Boris Lvin and Andrei Illarionov, who argue that Russian emigration from the area was no more intense than in other regions of Russia at the time.

The June 1990 Mineriad in particular was widely criticized both at home and internationally, with one historian ( Andrei Pippidi ) comparing the events to Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht.

After obtaining a degree in engineering from the in 1926, Ilyushin started designing aircraft at the TsAGI, where he worked with Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpov and Andrei Tupolev.

The move was partly a retaliatory one, as the UFC had chosen to run its first British show in years that same night at the Manchester Evening News Arena, headlined by Mirko " Cro Cop ", Andrei Arlovski and British star Michael Bisping.

Summers resigned as Harvard's president in the wake of a no-confidence vote by Harvard faculty that resulted in large part from Summers's conflict with Cornel West, financial conflict of interest questions regarding his relationship with Andrei Shleifer, and a 2005 speech in which he suggested that the under-representation of women in science and engineering could be due to a " different availability of aptitude at the high end ," and less to patterns of discrimination and socialization.

Among this group, were Prince Trubetskoi, Prince Obolensky, Peter and Andrei Borisov, Prince Volkonsky, and Artamon Muraviev, all of them bound for the mines at Nerchinsk.

He then served for two years as an intern at the design department of the TsAGI Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute under the direction of Andrei Tupolev, where he assisted in the design of the Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber.

On the journey from Seeon to the States, Tschaikovsky stopped at Paris, where she met Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, the Tsar's cousin, who believed her to be Anastasia.

After coming back from Berlin ( 1936 ), Cioran taught philosophy at the " Andrei Şaguna " high school in Braşov for a year.