The Andrei Sakharov Prize is a prize that is to be awarded every two years by the

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since 2006. The recipients are chosen for "''outstanding leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding

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.''" It is named after

Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet Physics, physicist and a List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing human rights around the world. Alt ...

(1921-1989), a Soviet

nuclear physicist Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. 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. The first Sakharov Prize was awarded to physicist and former Soviet gulag prisoner Yuri Orlov.

Recipients

Source: * 2006 Yuri Orlov (Cornell University) * 2008 Liangying Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) * 2010 Herman Winick (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, In ...

(University of Addis Ababa) and Richard Wilson (Harvard University) * 2014 Boris Altshuler (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute) and Omid Kokabee (University of Texas at Austin) * 2016 Zafra M. Lerman (Malta Conferences Foundation) * 2018

Narges Mohammadi Narges Mohammadi (; born 21 April 1972) is an Iranian human rights activist. She is the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), headed by her fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Shirin Ebadi. Mohammadi has been a vocal pr ...

(Iran Engineering Inspection Corporation) and Ravi Kuchimanchi (

Association for India's Development The Association for India's Development, Inc. (AID) is a secular charity organization based in the United States which promotes "sustainable, equitable and just development". AID has won several awards for its work, including the 'Global Impact Aw ...

) * 2020 Ayşe Erzan (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 h ...

(Temple University) * 2022 John C. Polanyi (University of Toronto) * 2024 Eugene Chudnovsky (City University of New York)

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