About Yuri Orlov
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov was a particle accelerator physicist, human rights activist, Soviet dissident, founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, a founding member of the Soviet Amnesty International group. He was declared a prisoner of conscience while serving nine years in prison and internal exile for monitoring the Helsinki human rights accords, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International as a founder of the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. Following his release from exile, Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University.
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Awards & Honors
Carter–Menil Human Rights Prize
Andrei Sakharov Prize
European Human Rights Prize
Robert R. Wilson Prize
Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Dwight Nicholson Medal for Outreach
