PHYSICIST

Andrei Sakharov

1921 - 1989

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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world. Although he spent his career in physics in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, overseeing the development of thermonuclear weapons, Sakharov also did fundamental work in understanding particle physics, magnetism, and physical cosmology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Sakharov has received more than 1,977,759 page views. His biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 91 in 2019). Andrei Sakharov is the 34th most popular physicist (up from 44th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Russia (up from 75th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Physicist.

Andrei Sakharov was a Russian nuclear physicist and human rights activist who is most famous for his work in nuclear weapons research and development. He was a key figure in the development of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb and became an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union's nuclear arms race with the United States.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Andrei Sakharov ranks 34 out of 851. Before him are Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, Ibn al-Haytham, Luigi Galvani, Gustav Kirchhoff, and Max Born. After him are Paul Dirac, Richard Feynman, Henry Cavendish, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Wolfgang Pauli, and Lise Meitner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Andrei Sakharov ranks 3. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and Alexander Dubček. After him are Michael I of Romania, Charles Bronson, Stanisław Lem, Suharto, Yves Montand, Astor Piazzolla, Giulietta Masina, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, and John Rawls. Among people deceased in 1989, Andrei Sakharov ranks 8. Before him are Nicolae Ceaușescu, Hirohito, Ruhollah Khomeini, Bette Davis, Samuel Beckett, and Herbert von Karajan. After him are Ted Bundy, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Simenon, Sergio Leone, Elena Ceaușescu, and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Sakharov ranks 51 out of 3,761. Before him are Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Paul I of Russia (1754), Gustav Kirchhoff (1824), Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Boris Pasternak (1890), and Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919). After him are Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Georgy Malenkov (1902), Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Vladimir the Great (958), and Alexander Nevsky (1220).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Russia

Among physicists born in Russia, Andrei Sakharov ranks 2. Before him are Gustav Kirchhoff (1824). After him are Wilhelm Wien (1864), Mikhail Lomonosov (1711), Arnold Sommerfeld (1868), Pavel Cherenkov (1904), Igor Kurchatov (1903), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Igor Tamm (1895), Nikolay Basov (1922), Ilya Frank (1908), and Pyotr Kapitsa (1894).

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