Sakharov, Andrei
Theoretical physicist and the "father of the Soviet H-bomb," Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), who was born in Moscow on May 21, became a prominent human rights
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Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich (1921–1989)
Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet physicist who became, in the words of the Nobel Peace Prize Commi...
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Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), one of the Soviet Union's leading theoretical physicists and regarded in scientific circles as the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb," also became Soviet Russia's most pro...
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Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975:_ 2007: Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for efforts to educate about the effects of man-made climate cha...
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Oslo (dpa) - The Nobel Peace Prize was instituted in 1901. Here is
a list of the winners since 1947:
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2006 Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank (Banglades...
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STRASBOURG, France, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The European
Parliament on Thursday awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for
Freedom of Thought to Sudanese human rights lawyer Salih Mahmoud
Osman. Osman, an o...
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Jan 15 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on January 22 in history: 1901 - Britain's Queen Victoria died after reigning
for 63 years. 1905 - In Russia, thousands o...
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Russia's scientific elite, in a rare show of disobedience to the Kremlin, on Wednesday voted against a government-proposed charter that would have transferred control of the historically independen...
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Jean-Francois Deniau, a former French government minister, diplomat, sailor and novelist, died Wednesday at age 78, friends said.Deniau died at his Paris home, fellow writer Jean d'Ormesson said.De...
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 19, the 353rd day of 2006. There are 12 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 19, 1843, "A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was first published in E...
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Moscow (dpa) - The music world was mourning the death of Russian
cellist and human rights campaigner Mstislav Rostropovich, who died
Friday aged 80 after a long struggle wit...
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Today is Tuesday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 2007. There are 83 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 9, 1967, Latin American guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed while atte...
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Oslo (dpa) - The Nobel Peace Prize was instituted in 1901. Here is
a list of the winners since 1944:
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2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ...
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Sakharov, Andrei
Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich (1921–1989)
Andrei Sakharov
Nobel Peace Prize winners since 1975
