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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rashid Sunyaev canonical | 3 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
astrophysicist
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cosmologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Dirac Medal of the ICTP
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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
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Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Yakov Zeldovich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDiscovered | Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
interpretation of X-ray emission from black holes and neutron stars
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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
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Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sunyaev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astrophysics
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cosmology ⓘ high-energy astrophysics ⓘ |
| givenName | Rashid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkAffiliationLocation |
Garching, Germany
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Moscow, Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effect
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X-ray astronomy ⓘ accretion disk theory ⓘ cosmic microwave background research ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ Russian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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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
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scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics ⓘ |
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