Rashid Sunyaev

Russian astronomer · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Born 1943 · age 83

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.

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2023Max Planck MedalAward2019ICTP Dirac MedalAward2017Clarivate Citation LaureatesAward2015Eddington MedalAwardOskar Klein MedalAward2012Benjamin Franklin MedalAward2010Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyAward2008Crafoord PrizeAwardCrafoord Prize in AstronomyAwardKarl Schwarzschild MedalAward2003Gruber Prize in CosmologyAward2000Bruce MedalAwardState Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and TechnologyAward1988Bruno Rossi PrizeAward1943Born1 March 1943

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Sunyaev in 1980

Awards

Max Planck Medal2023

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords2021

ICTP Dirac Medal2019

Clarivate Citation Laureates2017

State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology2016

Eddington Medal2015

Oskar Klein Medal2015

Named prizes and medals of the Russian Academy of Sciences2015

Benjamin Franklin Medal2012

Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences2011

Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany2010

King Faisal International Prize in Science2009

Henry Norris Russell Lectureship2008

Karl Schwarzschild Medal2008

Crafoord Prize in Astronomy2008

Crafoord Prize2008

Karl G. Jansky Lectureship2005

Gruber Prize in Cosmology2003

Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics2003

State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology2000

Bruce Medal2000

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society1995

Bruno Rossi Prize1988

Gruber Prizes

State Prize of the Russian Federation

Kyoto Prize

About this person

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.

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Russia