Correspondence, speeches and writings, reports, memoranda, press releases, statements, petitions, lists, financial records, printed matter, photographs, video tapes, and sound recordings, relating to civil rights and dissident scientists in the Soviet Union, and especially to Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov and Anatoly Shcharansky. Includes some papers of Morris Pripstein, chairman of the organization.

Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov and Shcharansky (SOS), formerly known as Scientists for Shcharansky, is a private non-governmental organization created by a group of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley. It came into existence in the summer of 1978 in response to the arrests of Yuri Orlov and Natan (Anatoly) Shcharansky. There was a great deal of concern in the scientific community over the numerous violations of human rights affecting fellow scientists in many parts of the world. In response to these concerns, an effort was made to help individual scientists who were persecuted by their governments and to address the question of human rights in the broader context of scientific freedom and scientific exchange and international cooperation.

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