Word: sakharovs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sakharov "was interested in people, not in sermonizing, in ideas, not fame," Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Richard Wilson told the audience. He added that he "didn't think that Sakharov had expected to be vindicated in his lifetime...
...service, held 40 days after Sakharov's death in keeping with Russian tradition, was sponsored by Amnesty International at Boylston Hall. Joshua Rubenstein, regional director for the groups noted that the day also marked the 10th anniversary of Sakharov's arrest and exile to Gorky as a political dissident, where he remained for seven years...
...Sakharov had accumulated numerous friends and followers around Massachusetts, where he maintained professional and academic ties throughout his life. Many of them attended the Monday memorial...
Adam B. Ulam, the Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, said, "Today provides us with a reminder of what we can all do to make this a saner, safer world...[Sakharov] refused to play the martyr--heroism had been much overused, in his opinion, in the media...
...Professor Emeritus Herman Feshbach attempted to put some of Sakharov's accomplishments in perspective. He compared Sakharov to the biblical Moses and American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Sakharov was "unique in world history as a great scientist, humanitarian, developer of the atom bomb, and human being," Fesbach said...