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The physicist and the Soviet citizen

Few people have had such wide and deep influence as Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. Here E. L. Feinberg reflects on Sakharov's life and work. On page 13 Maxim Frank-Kamenetskii recounts the circumstances of a first encounter with 'a man to remember', and on page 14 Valery Soyfer tel Is of Sakharov's battle against lysenkoism.

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Feinberg, E. The physicist and the Soviet citizen. Nature 344, 11–13 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/344011a0

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