Scientist, Thinker, Humanist

I cannot say that I knew Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov well, so this will be a view of him from off to the side, so to speak. It was 1950, in Dubna, when I first saw Sakharov. I was working at the first of the Dubna accelerators at the time. One day, while a management team headed by Igor V. Kurchatov was visiting the place to get a look at the experimental results, a very quiet and shy young man caught my attention. When I asked some acquaintances who he was, I was told, “Sakharov, candidate in sciences from the Lebedev Physics Institute.” I was advised to remember his name, since even at the time a very bright future was seen for him.

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