Andrei Sakharov occupation physicist
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf]; 21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989), D.N., was a Soviet physicist and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, which he was awarded in 1975 for emphasizing the human rights around the world.  
Though, he spent his career in physics during the former Soviet program of nuclear weapons overseeing the thermonuclear discharges for Russian nuclear weapons, Sakharov did fundamental work in understanding the particle physics, magnetism, and physical cosmology. Sakaharov is mostly known for his political activism for individual freedom, human rights, civil liberties and reforms in Russia, for which, he was deemed as a dissident and faced persecution from the former Soviet establishment.In his memory, the Sakharov Prize is established by the European Parliament which is awarded annually for the people and organizations dedicated to human rights and freedoms.
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