Fusing Science and Civics; Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov (Biography) Fusing Science and Civics; Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov (Biography)

Fusing Science and Civics; Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov (Biography‪)‬

Issues in Science and Technology 2010, Wntr, 26, 2

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Publisher Description

Andrei Sakharov is widely remembered today for two things. As a physicist, he helped create the Soviet Union's first and biggest thermonuclear weapons, and as a political dissident, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing "human rights" and nuclear disarmament. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2010
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
8
Pages
PUBLISHER
National Academy of Sciences
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
302.5
KB

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