The Andrei Sakharov Prize is a prize that is to be awarded every second year by the
American Physical Society 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 (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 (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
Zafra M. Lerman is an American chemist, educator, and humanitarian. She is the President of the Malta Conferences Foundation, which aims to promote peace by bringing together scientists from otherwise hostile countries to discuss science and fost ...
(Malta Conferences Foundation)
* 2018
Ravi Kuchimanchi (
Association for India's Development
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) and
Narges Mohammadi (Iran Engineering Inspection Corporation)
* 2020
Ayşe Erzan (Istanbul Technical University) and
Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University)
See also
*
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 li ...
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