# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rashid-sunyaev
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:47.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rashid-sunyaev"
name: "Rashid Sunyaev"
slug: "rashid-sunyaev"
description: "Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a Soviet, Russian and German astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his MS degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1966. He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Sunyaev was the head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been chief scientist of the Academy's Space Research Institute since 1992. He has also been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, since 1996, and Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 2010."
tagline: "Russian astronomer (born 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rashid_Sunyaev_(2012-09-03).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.01
  momentum:             4.301075268817202
  historical:           20.57923333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D3%99%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%82_%D0%A1%D3%A9%D0%BD%D3%99%D0%B5%D0%B2"
    title: "Рәшит Сөнәев"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "راشد سنييف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%81"
    title: "راشد سنييف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "رشید سونیایف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C9%99%C5%9Fid_S%C3%B6n%C9%99yev"
    title: "Rəşid Sönəyev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raixid_Siuni%C3%A0iev"
    title: "Raixid Siuniàiev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%95%DB%95%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8E%DA%A4"
    title: "ڕەشید سونیایێڤ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C5%A1id_Sjunjajev"
    title: "Rašid Sjunjajev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Sunyaev"
    title: "Rashid Sunyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Sunyaev"
    title: "Rashid Sunyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Siuny%C3%A1iev"
    title: "Rashid Siunyáiev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C5%A1id_Sjunjajev"
    title: "Rašid Sjunjajev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%81"
    title: "رشید سونیایف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Sunyaev"
    title: "Rashid Sunyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C5%A1id_Alievi%C4%8D_Sjunjaev"
    title: "Rašid Alievič Sjunjaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A8%E3%83%95"
    title: "ラシード・スニャーエフ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9D%BC%EC%8B%9C%EB%93%9C_%EC%88%98%EB%83%90%EC%97%90%ED%94%84"
    title: "라시드 수냐에프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Sunyaev"
    title: "Rashid Sunyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "റാഷിദ് അലിയെവിച്ച് സ്യുന്യായെവ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raszyd_Siuniajew"
    title: "Raszyd Siuniajew"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashid_Sunyaev"
    title: "Rashid Sunyaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C8%99id_Siuneaev"
    title: "Rașid Siuneaev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%B5%D0%B2%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Сюняев, Рашид Алиевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasjid_Siunjajev"
    title: "Rasjid Siunjajev"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "இரசீத் சூன்யாயெவ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q836911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump