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Andrei Sakharov

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Noun1.Andrei Sakharov - Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)


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1964) and Mother Teresa (1979), along with the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov (1975); the conscience of the Holocaust, Eli Wiesel (1986); the Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi (1991); and the French Jewish-Catholic scholar Rene Cassin (1968), who drafted much of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
Obama is right - he doesn't deserve to stand beside Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, Teddy Roosevelt, Desmond Tutu, Andrei Sakharov, Norman Borlaug and many other previous laureates.
The Sakharov Prize, named after Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, is in its 20th year.
 
 
 
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