Charles Hyder, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1930)

Charles Hyder

American astrophysicist and dissident

Charles Latif Hyder was an American astrophysicist and dissident from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who campaigned against arms race, nuclear weapons and nuclear waste, and ran for the U.S. presidency. Media coverage of his hunger strike by the Communist press and television was seen…