Paul J. Flory papers, 1975-1986.

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Paul J. Flory papers, 1975-1986.

Correspondence, statements, memoranda, bulletins, press releases, and clippings, relating to the civil rights of dissident scientists in various countries, especially the Soviet Union. Much of the material concerns the cases of Andreĭ Sakharov, I︠U︡riĭ Orlov and Anatoly Shcharanskiĭ.

8 ms. boxes.

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Sakharov, Andreĭ, 1921-1989

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Andreĭ Dmitrievich Sakharov was born May 21, 1921, into a Moscow family of cultured and liberal intelligentsia. His father was Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, a private school physics teacher and an amateur pianist. Sakharov's mother was Ëkaterina Alekseyevna Sakharova (née Sofiano, of Greek ancestry). Although his paternal great-grandfather had been a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church and his mother had had him baptized, his father was an atheist. Sakharov married Klavdia Alekseyevn...

Orlov, Yuri, 1924-

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Shcharansky, Anatoly

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Flory, Paul John

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American chemist. From the description of Paul J. Flory papers, 1975-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872172 Flory was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1974. Born in Illinois in 1910, he attended Manchester college and did graduate work at Ohio State University, earning his Ph. D in 1934. Flory went to work for the Dupont Company in the Central Research Department where he worked for Dr. Wallace Carothers. Following the death of Carothers in 1937, Flory joined...

Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky.

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Historical Note Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS), formerly known as Scientists for Shcharansky, is a private non-governmental organization created by a group of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley. It came into existence in the summer of 1978 in response to the arrests of Yuri Orlov and Natan (Anatoly) Shcharansky. There was a great deal of concern in the scientific community over the numerous violations o...