Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS)

Biennial human rights award

Not to be confused with other Sakharov Prizes.

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[edit]

Source:[1]

* 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)

## See also[edit]

* List of American Physical Society prizes and awards
* List of physics awards

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "Andrei Sakharov Prize". aps.org. American Physical Society. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
2. ^ "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.
3. ^ "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

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