Yuri Orlov
Soviet physicist and dissident (1924–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov (Russian: Ю́рий Фёдорович Орло́в, 13 August 1924 – 27 September 2020) was a particle accelerator physicist,[8] human rights activist,[9] Soviet dissident,[10] founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group,[11] a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group,[12]. He was declared a prisoner of conscience[13] while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International [14] as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union.[15] Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University.
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov | |
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Юрий Фёдорович Орлов | |
Born | (1924-08-13)13 August 1924 |
Died | 27 September 2020(2020-09-27) (aged 96) |
Nationality | Russian |
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Alma mater | Moscow State University, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics |
Known for | his scientific work and participation in human rights movement in the Soviet Union |
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Children | sons Dmitri, Aleksandr,[5] Lev[1] |
Awards | Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize (1986), honorary doctorate Uppsala University (1990)[6] Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service (1995), Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS) (2006), Robert R. Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators American Physical Society (2020)[7] |
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Fields | Accelerator physics, Nuclear physics |
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