Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS)
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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]