The Andrei Sakharov Prize is a prize that is to be awarded every second year by the
American Physical Society
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since 2006. The recipients are chosen for "''outstanding leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding
human rights
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''". The prize is named after
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for nu ...
(1921-1989), Soviet
nuclear physicist
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Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...
, dissident and human rights activist; since 2007 it has been valued at $10,000.
Recipients
* 2006
Yuri Orlov
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding ...
(Cornell University)
* 2008
Liangying Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
* 2010
Herman Winick
Herman Winick (born June 27, 1932) is an American scientist and Professor Emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Applied Physics Department of Stanford University.
Biography
After receiving his AB (1953) and PhD (1957) ...
(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Joseph Birman (City University of New York), and Morris (Moishe) Pripstein (National Science Foundation)
* 2012
Mulugeta Bekele
Mulugeta Bekele (born 2 January 1947) is an Ethiopian scientist and academic. He is an associate Professor of Physics at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia. He completed his PhD in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Indi ...
(University of Addis Ababa) and
Richard Wilson (Harvard University)
* 2014
Boris Altshuler
Boris Leonidovich Altshuler (russian: Бори́с Леонидович Альтшу́лер, born 27 January 1955, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, Soviet Union, USSR) is a professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University. His specialty is the ...
(P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute) and
Omid Kokabee
Omid Kokabee (Persian: امید کوکبی; born 1982) is an Iranian experimental laser physicist at the University of Texas at Austin who was arrested in Iran after returning from the United States to visit his family on January 30, 2011. He was ...
(University of Texas at Austin)
* 2016
Zafra M. Lerman (Malta Conferences Foundation)
* 2018
Ravi Kuchimanchi Ravi may refer to:
People
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(
Association for India's Development) and
Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi (; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist and the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. In May 2016, she was sentenced in Tehran to 16 ...
(Iran Engineering Inspection Corporation)
* 2020
Ayşe Erzan
Ayşe Erzan (born 1949) is a Turkish theoretical physicist.
She has received a number of awards including a L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in 2003 and a Rammal Award in 2009.
Biography
Ayşe Erzan was born in 1949 in Ankara. Following ...
(Istanbul Technical University) and
Xiaoxing Xi
Xiaoxing Xi (; born 1957) is a Chinese-born American physicist. He is the Laura H. Carnell Professor and former chair at the Physics Department of Temple University in Philadelphia. In May 2015, the United States Department of Justice arrested hi ...
(Temple University)
See also
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List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a lis ...
References
External links
Andrei Sakharov Prize American Physical Society
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Awards of the American Physical Society
Science in society
Human rights awards
Awards established in 2006