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Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)

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Andrei Sakharov

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world.
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Nobel Peace Prize

One of five Nobel Prizes established by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Since March 1901, it has been awarded…
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