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Noun: Andrei Sakharov
  1. Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)
    - Sakharov, Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov

Type of: nuclear physicist

Encyclopedia: Andrei Sakharov