Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb | |
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Александр Давидович Гольдфарб | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Alexander_Goldfarb.jpg) Alexander Goldfarb in 2007 | |
| Born | May 23, 1947 Moscow, Russia |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University (1969) |
| Occupation(s) | Microbiologist, Activist, Author |
| Known for | Co-founder of Litvinenko Justice Foundation |
Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb (a.k.a. Alex Goldfarb, Russian: Александр Давидович Гольдфарб; born 1947 in Moscow) is a Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author. He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and studied in Israel and Germany before settling permanently in New York in 1982. Goldfarb is a naturalized American citizen.[1] He has combined a scientific career as a microbiologist with political and public activities focused on civil liberties and human rights in Russia, in the course of which he has been associated with Andrei Sakharov, George Soros, Boris Berezovsky, and Alexander Litvinenko.[2] He has not visited Russia since 2000.[1]
- ^ a b Alex Goldfarb, with Marina Litvinenko Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB, The Free Press, 2007, ISBN 1-4165-5165-4.
- ^ "Гольдфарб, Алекс". Lenta.ru. Retrieved 2013-07-11.