People · researcher
Andrei Sakharov
1921–1989 · Physics
- Lifespan
- 1921–1989
- Field
- Physics
- Nationality
- Soviet
- Nobel
- Peace 1975
Known For
Set out in 1967 the three conditions any explanation of the matter–antimatter asymmetry must satisfy — baryon number violation, C and CP violation, departure from equilibrium — and they still frame the problem. Also the Soviet hydrogen bomb, and the Nobel Peace Prize for opposing what he had built.
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