Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS)
Encyclopedia
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; as of 2007 it is valued at $10,000.
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society is the world's second largest organization of physicists, behind the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. The Society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the world renowned Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than 20...
since 2006. The recipients are chosen for "outstanding leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
". The prize is named after Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. He earned renown as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the...
(1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist; as of 2007 it is valued at $10,000.
Recipients
- 2010 Herman Winick
- 2008 Liangying XuXu LiangyingXu Liangying , b 1920, is a Chinese physicist, translator and a famous historian and philosopher of natural science in China.-Biography:...
- 2006 Yuri Orlov
External links
- Andrei Sakharov Prize, American Physical Society