Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989)

Awarded the Prize “for his fearless personal commitment in upholding the fundamental principles for peace between men is a powerful inspiration for all true work for peace.”

Soviet physicist. Sakharov was born on May 21, 1921 in Moscow. He graduated at the University of Moscow won a doctorate at the Lebedev Institute of Physics. He was admitted as a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1953. He was exiled to Siberia as a dissident from 1969 until 1986 when he returned Moscow. Sakharov died on December 14, 1989 in Moscow.
Major Works:
Thoughts on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence Intellectual Freedom (1968)