Andrei Sakharov

Physicist

1921-05-21 – 1989-12-14

Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet physicist and human rights advocate. He played a central role in the Soviet hydrogen bomb program and later became a prominent dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Quotes by Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
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In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
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