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Yuri Orlov

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Soviet physicist and dissident (1924-2020)

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Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group.

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2021Robert R. Wilson Prize
2006Andrei Sakharov Prize
1995Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
1990honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala
1989European Human Rights Prize
1986Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize
Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

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Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience 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 as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University.

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Lived 1924 to 2020 · aged 96
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