Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS)

The Andrei Sakharov Prize is a prize that is to be awarded every second year by the American Physical Society since 2006. The recipients are chosen for "outstanding leadership and/or achievements of scientists in upholding human rights". The prize is named after Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist; since 2007 it has been valued at $10,000. The first Sakharov Prize was awarded to physicist and former Soviet gulag prisoner Yuri Orlov.

Recipients
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 * 2006 Yuri Orlov (Cornell University)
 * 2008 Liangying Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
 * 2010 Herman Winick (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Joseph Birman (City University of New York), and Morris (Moishe) Pripstein (National Science Foundation)
 * 2012 Mulugeta Bekele (University of Addis Ababa) and Richard Wilson (Harvard University)
 * 2014 Boris Altshuler (P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute) and Omid Kokabee (University of Texas at Austin)
 * 2016 Zafra M. Lerman (Malta Conferences Foundation)
 * 2018 Narges Mohammadi (Iran Engineering Inspection Corporation) and Ravi Kuchimanchi (Association for India's Development)
 * 2020 Ayşe Erzan (Istanbul Technical University) and Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University)
 * 2022 John C. Polanyi (University of Toronto)