The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

by Antonina W. Bouis and Gennady E. Gorelik

Book Overview

How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was "simply a man with an unusual fate." To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an extraordinary man, The World of Andrei Sakharov, the first authoritative study of Andrei Sakharov as a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515620X
• ISBN13: 9780195156201
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"