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". The prize is named after Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist; since 2007 it has been valued at $10,000.[1] The first Sakharov Prize was awarded to physicist and former Soviet gulag prisoner Yuri Orlov.[2]
Recipients
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- 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)[3]
- 2016 Zafra M. Lerman (Malta Conferences Foundation)
- 2018 Narges Mohammadi (Iran Engineering Inspection Corporation) and Ravi Kuchimanchi (Association for India's Development)
- 2020 Ayşe Erzan (Istanbul Technical University) and Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University)
- 2022 John C. Polanyi (University of Toronto)
- 2024 Eugene Chudnovsky (City University of New York)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Andrei Sakharov Prize". aps.org. American Physical Society. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
- ^ "First Andrei Sakharov Prize for human rights goes to Cornell physicist and former Soviet gulag prisoner Yuri Orlov | Cornell Chronicle". news.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Seven days: 20–26 September 2013". Nature. 501 (7468): 466–467. 2013-09-01. doi:10.1038/501466a. ISSN 0028-0836.
External links
edit- Andrei Sakharov Prize, American Physical Society