the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1969) Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (1973) In 1980, Sakharov was stripped of all Soviet awards for "anti-Soviet activities". Later, during glasnost, he declined the return of his awards and, consequently, Mikhail Gorbachev did not sign the necessary decree. Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1974). Nobel Peace Prize (1975). Elected member of the American Philosophical Society (1978) Laurea Honoris Causa of the Sapienza University of Rome (1980). Grand Cross of Order of the Cross of Vytis (posthumously on January 8, 2003). Bibliography Books Articles and interviews See also Sakharov conditions Sakharov Prize List of peace activists Natan Sharansky Stanislaw Ulam Omid Kokabee Mordechai Vanunu References Further reading The Regesto delle lauree honoris causa dal 1944 al 1985 is a detailed and carefully commented register of all the documents of the official archive of the Sapienza University of Rome pertaining to the honoris causa degrees awarded or not. It includes all the awarding proposals submitted during the considered period, detailed presentations of the work of the candidate, if available, and precise references to related articles published on Italian newspapers and magazines, if the laurea was awarded. External links The Andrei Sakharov Archives at the Houghton Library. Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights . Web exhibit at the American Institute of Physics. Andrei Sakharov: Photo-chronology Annotated bibliography of Andrei Sakharov from the Alsos Digital Library Videos 1921 births 1989 deaths 20th-century Russian writers Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by the Soviet Union European democratic socialists Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Grand Crosses of the Order of the Cross of Vytis Heroes of Socialist Labour Lenin Prize winners Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union Moscow State University alumni Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nuclear weapons program of the Soviet Union People of the Cold War Perestroika Recipients of the Order of Lenin Hunger strikers Soviet atheists Soviet inventors Soviet memoirists Soviet anti–nuclear weapons activists Soviet dissidents Soviet male writers 20th-century male writers Soviet Nobel laureates Soviet non-fiction writers Soviet nuclear physicists Soviet prisoners and detainees Soviet psychiatric abuse whistleblowers Stalin Prize winners Writers from Moscow Political prisoners Russian people of Greek descent Political party founders 20th-century memoirists Male non-fiction writers World War II refugees Members of the American Philosophical Society Soviet reformers Soviet human rights activists Deaths from cardiomyopathy Fellows of the