Yuri orlov biography of albert
Orlov was allowed to emigrate to the U.S. and became a professor of physics at Cornell University.
Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov is Professor of Physics and Government at Cornell University, a former Soviet dissident, Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights....
Yuri Orlov 1924–2020
Yuri Orlov, a world-renowned accelerator physicist and a leading figure in the worldwide campaign for human rights in Soviet Russia, passed away at the end of September at the age of 96.
Yuri was born in Moscow in 1924.
He studied and worked there until 1956, when a critical pro-democracy speech he gave at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics resulted in him being fired and banned from scientific work. He then moved to the Yerevan Physics Institute in Armenia where he earned his first doctorate (“Nonlinear theory of betatron oscillations in the strong-focusing synchrotron”) in 1958, followed by the award of a second doctorate in 1963.
While in Yerevan, he designed the 6 GeV electron synchrotron, became head of the electromagnetic interaction laboratory, and was elected to the Armenian Academy of Sciences.
In 1972 Yuri returned to Moscow and joined the influential dissident movement that included Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.