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Just what made Andrei Sakharov tick? The Soviet Academy of Sciences' Brain Institute intends to find out. The mind that helped create the U.S.S.R.'s hydrogen bomb and spearheaded the Soviet dissident movement now lies cut into "blocks" and preserved in paraffin, awaiting examination by the institute's scientists...
Adrianov hopes the postmortem on Sakharov will shed light on the relationship between brain construction and scientific genius. But the Brain Institute is not especially interested in what made Sakharov the great dissident he was. Says Adrianov: "A political activist can be anybody, but not anybody can be a great scientist...
...interview on Tuesday, Rubenstein said that "being active in human rights and social action organizations is a fitting testament to Dr. Sakharov's memory...
...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...
Tatyana Yankelevich, the daughter of Sakharov's wife, Elena, "thanked" the audience "for realizing what he meant to this world." Sakharov once told Yankelevich, "The only martyr one can have is freedom," she said this week...