Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS)

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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]

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 (Malta Conferences Foundation)
• 2018 (Association for India's Development) and Narges Mohammadi (Iran Engineering Inspection Corporation)
• 2020 Ayşe Erzan (Istanbul Technical University) and Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University)

See also[]

• List of physics awards

References[]

External links[]

• Andrei Sakharov Prize, American Physical Society