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Culture, history and society

Breaking boundaries: how erstwhile physics teacher Alexandr Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for Literature

30 Sep 2022 Hamish Johnston

With the 2022 Nobel prizes due to be announced, Physics World editors look at the physicists who’ve won prizes in fields other than their own. Here, Hamish Johnston looks at the small but important role physics played in the life of the Russian author and dissident Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

Saving grace: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn giving a mathematics lesson in Kok-Terek in the spring of 1954.

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