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...behalf of dissidents and a force within the nascent Soviet human- rights movement. Years were marked by highs and lows: in 1968, Sakharov was barred from all military research; in 1972, he married his soulmate and second wife, the activist Elena Bonner; in 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Kremlin finally lost patience, and Sakharov was exiled to the closed city of Gorky in 1980 after he condemned the invasion of Afghanistan. There he remained until 1986, when Mikhail Gorbachev - then in power about a year - told the Politburo that Sakharov "appears to have a good head...
...University will confer honorary degrees on 12 individuals—including a Nobel laureate, two people who have served as presidents of Ivy League universities, and a managing director of the World Bank—at today’s Commencement exercises. Nine men and three women will be honored...
...Nobel prize-winning physical chemist from Taiwan. He has done extensive observation of complex molecules and the dynamics of their reactions. His work often focused on photochemical reactions and processes...
...study of reaction dynamics, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 with Herschbach. He has also been awarded the Royal Chemical Society’s Faraday Medal and the National Medal of Science...
South African president and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Nelson Mandela receives an honorary degree before a 25,000-person crowd in Tercentenary Theatre. The ceremony, the third of its kind, joins Mandela with George Washington and Winston Churchill as the only men honored with a degree conferment not directly linked to Commencement or the celebration of a University anniversary...