OSLO (Reuters) - On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow ...

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, prohibited from attending the Nobel ceremony in Oslo, secretly passed his acceptance speech to a Norwegian diplomat in Moscow. The speech, read by his wife, ...

The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the ...

Andrei Sakharov once described Igor Kurchatov as a man whose most pronounced trait was his fascination with "grand" science. The physicist who headed the Soviet nuclear program from 1943 until his ...

Its assignment was to check the Zel'dovich group's calculations. Andrei Sakharov was a member of this second team. Before long, he had come up with an innovative new scheme. He suggested a ...

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андре́й Дми́триевич Са́харов; May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist.

Source: Wikipedia Mikhail Gorbachev’s decision to free Andrei Sakharov, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and prominent dissident, marked a significant step in the Soviet Union’s move toward ...