Prize Talk: Andrei Sakharov Prize: When Scientists Are Victimized by Their Governments

Lehman College and Graduate School, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468,  eugene.chudnovsky@lehman.cuny.edu

 

The presentation will cover the work of the Committee of Concerned Scientists https://concernedscientists.org/, a fifty-year-old organization devoted to the protection and advancement of human rights and scientific freedom of scientists, physicians, engineers, and scholars. It will focus on cases of academics who have been wrongly accused and imprisoned in various countries and on the ways of helping them.