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Rashid Sunyaev
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Russian astronomer (born 1943)
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Rashid Sunyaev is a physicist, astronomer, inventor and university teacher born on 1 March 1943 in Tashkent, holding citizenship of the Soviet Union and Russia. He was educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, studied under doctoral advisor Yakov Zeldovich, and works in astrophysics, cosmology and X-ray astronomy. He has been employed by the Russian Space Research Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics.
Sunyaev, who practises Islam, is a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has received the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1943-03-01 ) 1 March 1943 (age 83) , Tashkent , Uzbek SSR , Soviet Union
- Alma mater
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MS), Moscow State University (Ph.D)
- Known for
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Awards
- King Faisal International Prize for Physics (2009), Heineman Prize (2003), Crafoord Prize (2008), Kyoto Prize (2011), Dirac Medal , ICTP (2019), Max Planck Medal (2023)
- Fields
- Astronomer
- Institutions
- Russian Academy of Sciences , Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics , Institute for Advanced Study
- Doctoral advisor
- Yakov Zeldovich
- Doctoral students
- Marat Gilfanov, Sergei Grebenev, Mikhail Pavlinskii, Sergey Sazonov, Oleg Terekhov, Eugenii Churazov, Jens Chluba
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Tashkent
- Occupation
- inventor
- Educated at
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Employer
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Religion
- Islam
- Award
- Kyoto Prize
- Doctoral advisor
- Yakov Zeldovich
- Field of work
- X-ray astronomy
- Image
- Rashid Sunyaev (2012-09-03).jpg
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- member of
- International Astronomical Union
- date of birth
- 1943-03-01
- Commons category
- Rashid Sunyaev
- name in native language
- Рәшит Гали улы Сөнәев
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Val Peterson
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Encyclopedic overview
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