Published “Targeted Data Extraction of the MS/MS Spectra Generated by Data-independent Acquisition: A New Concept for Consistent and Accurate Proteome Analysis” in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics — cited 2,618 times.
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Yelena Georgiyevna Bonner was a human rights activist in the former Soviet Union and wife of the physicist, activist and 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. During her decades as a dissident, Bonner was noted for her characteristic blunt honesty and courage.
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science · Human rights activist in the Soviet Union (1923–2011) · dissident · human rights defender · pediatrician · writer · civil rights advocate · physician · also Yelena Bonner, Yelena Georgievna Bonner, Elena Bonner, Bonner
Born 15 February 1923 · Died 18 June 2011 · Q446808
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Published “Targeted Data Extraction of the MS/MS Spectra Generated by Data-independent Acquisition: A New Concept for Consistent and Accurate Proteome Analysis” in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics — cited 2,618 times.
Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,269 times.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Interview With Russian Rights Activist Yelena Bonner 3/3
Newsday: Yelena Bonner, Russian activist, dies
The Idaho Press-Tribune: Yelena Bonner, Andrei Sakharov's widow, dies at 88
Died 2011-06-18.
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Bonner was among the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published 10 March 2010.
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Published “Radiotherapy plus Cetuximab for Squamous-Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 4,390 times.
Published “Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark–gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions” in Nuclear Physics A — cited 2,912 times.
Bonner participated in "They Chose Freedom", a four-part television documentary on the history of the Soviet dissident movement
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Won Giuseppe Motta Medal (2004).
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Were turned over to Harvard University
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Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 2nd class (2003).
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Won Robert Schuman Medal (2001).
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Awarded Hannah Arendt Prize (2000).
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In 1999, Yelena Bonner received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom.
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Yelena Bonner received the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom
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Published “DNA Double-stranded Breaks Induce Histone H2AX Phosphorylation on Serine 139” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 4,626 times.
Outraged by what she called "genocide of the Chechen people", Bonner resigned from Yeltsin's Human Rights Commission and was an outspoken opponent to Russian armed involvement in Chechnya and critical of the Kremlin for
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Donated Sakharov papers in the West to Brandeis University in the U
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Awarded Rafto Prize (1991).
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The European Parliament's Robert Schuman Medal in 2001, the awards of International Humanist and Ethical Union, the World Women's Alliance, the Adelaida Ristori Foundation, the U
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Published “Structure of a cannabinoid receptor and functional expression of the cloned cDNA” in Nature — cited 4,060 times.
Bonner and Sakharov went on a dangerous but ultimately successful hunger strike to get Soviet officials to allow their daughter-in-law, Yelizaveta Konstantinovna ("Lisa") Alexeyeva, an exit visa to join her husband, Bonn
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When in January 1980 Sakharov was exiled to Gorky, a city closed to foreigners, the harassed and publicly denounced Bonner became his lifeline, traveling between Gorky and Moscow to bring out his writings.
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1977 and 1979 for treatment of her wartime eye injury
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Under pressure from Sakharov, the Soviet regime permitted Yelena Bonner to travel to the West in 1975, 1977 and 1979 for treatment of her wartime eye injury.
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Published “A Film Detection Method for Tritium‐Labelled Proteins and Nucleic Acids in Polyacrylamide Gels” in European Journal of Biochemistry — cited 6,351 times.
Bonner and Sakharov met Natan Sharansky and began working together to defend Jews sentenced to death for attempting an escape from the USSR in a hijacked plane
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While she was working as a physician, only a few years later she was becoming active in the Soviet human rights movement
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Published “ACETYLORNITHINASE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI: PARTIAL PURIFICATION AND SOME PROPERTIES” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 3,361 times.
Bonner was accepted as student in the medical institute in Leningrad
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Was honorably discharged as a disabled veteran
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Volunteered for the Red Army's Hospital when the Soviet Union was invaded, and she became head nurse
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Bonner's father was arrested by the NKVD and killed as part of Stalin's Great Purge; her mother was arrested a few days later as the wife of an enemy of the people, and served ten years in the Gulag near Karaganda, Kazak
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Born 1923-02-15.
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