The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

by Antonina W. Bouis and Gennady E. Gorelik

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How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was "simply a man with an unusual fate." To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an extraordinary man, The World of Andrei Sakharov, the first authoritative study of Andrei Sakharov as a...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019515620X

ISBN13:9780195156201

Release Date:April 2005

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Engineering History History & Philosophy Nuclear Nuclear Physics Philosophers Physics Professionals & Academics Russia Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Scientists Weapons & Warfare

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