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A Russian human rights advocate and a nuclear physicist and father of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb, was born on 21st May 1921 in Moscow. He received his degree in physics from Moscow State University in 1942, and taking a doctorate in 1947. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1975. Sakharov's brilliant mathematical work on gas dynamics, magnetic confinement of charged particles, and other problems was crucial to the creation of the Soviet hydrogen bomb first tested in August 1953. In recognition of his contribution, he was elected a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences at the age of 32 and given other honors and privileges. In his 1968 essay “Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom” Sakharov argued for detente, the relaxation of strained relations between East and West. He also called for a gradual convergence of the socialist and capitalist systems. The essay's publication in underground samizdat (literature published and circulated secretly in the Soviet Union) and in translation abroad led to the termination of Sakharov's military-related work and the loss of many luxuries. Sakharov was one of three cofounders in 1970 of the Committee for Human Rights. From then on, although he continued to do some research on physics and cosmology, he was constantly embroiled in human rights causes. These included campaigns in favor of freedoms of speech, assembly, worship, and emigration-all of which were guaranteed in theory by the Soviet constitution but denied in practice. He frequently signed petitions, attended trials of dissidents charged with criminal offenses, gave news conferences for foreign journalists in order to publicize cases of abuse, and on several occasions staged hunger strikes.
He died on December 14, 1989, Moscow, Russia.
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