Rashid Sunyaev

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Rashid Sunyaev is a prominent Russian-German astrophysicist known for his pioneering work on the cosmic microwave background and the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect, which describes the distortion of this background radiation by galaxy clusters.

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instanceOf astrophysicist
cosmologist
human
awardReceived Dirac Medal of the ICTP NERFINISHED
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society NERFINISHED
Gruber Cosmology Prize NERFINISHED
Heineman Prize for Astrophysics NERFINISHED
Kavli Prize in Astrophysics NERFINISHED
Max Planck Medal NERFINISHED
State Prize of the USSR NERFINISHED
birthCountry Uzbek SSR NERFINISHED
birthDate 1943-03-01
birthPlace Tashkent NERFINISHED
citizenship Germany
Russia NERFINISHED
coAuthorWith Yakov Zeldovich NERFINISHED
coDiscovered Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect NERFINISHED
contributedTo interpretation of X-ray emission from black holes and neutron stars
theory of Comptonization in astrophysics
theory of accretion onto compact objects
theory of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background
doctoralAdvisor Yakov Zeldovich NERFINISHED
educatedAt Moscow State University NERFINISHED
employer Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics NERFINISHED
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED
familyName Sunyaev NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork astrophysics
cosmology
high-energy astrophysics
givenName Rashid NERFINISHED
hasWorkAffiliationLocation Garching, Germany NERFINISHED
Moscow, Russia NERFINISHED
knownFor Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect NERFINISHED
X-ray astronomy
accretion disk theory
cosmic microwave background research
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
Russian
memberOf German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina NERFINISHED
Royal Society
Russian Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED
US National Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED
name Rashid Alievich Sunyaev NERFINISHED
positionHeld director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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