Rashid A. Sunyaev#
| Membership Number: | 915 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ias.edu/scholars/rashid-sunyaev https://www.mpg.de/379023/astrophysik_wissM1 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2010 Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- Since 2002 Head of the High-Energy Astrophysics Dept. of the Institute for Space Research in Moscow
- Since 2001 Professor at the Institute of Physics and Technology in Moscow
- Since 1995 Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- Since 1992 Chief Scientist of IKI
- 1973 - 1982 Head of the Laboratory for Theoretical Astrophysics
- 1968 - 1973 Scientific collaborator of the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the Soviet Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Physical cosmology
- High-energy astrophysics
- Cosmological recombination of hydrogen and helium
- Physics of gas accretion onto neutron stars and black holes
- Problem of matter
- Radiation interaction under extreme astrophysical conditions
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1984
- Bruno Rossi Prize in 1988 for his contributions to understanding cosmic X-ray sources, especially the structure of accretion disks around black holes, the X-ray spectra of compact objects, and the Mir-based discovery of hard X-ray emission from supernovae 1987A
- Foreign Associate of USA National Academy of Sciences since 1991
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1995
- Bruce Medal in 2000 for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy
- State Prize of Russian Federation in 2000 for research of Black Holes and Neutron stars with GRANAT X-ray and gamma-ray astrophysical observatory in 1990-1998
- Alexander Friedman Prize by Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002 for the publications on the reduction of brightness of cosmic microwave background radiation in the direction of clusters of galaxies
- Heineman Prize in 2003 for outstanding work in astrophysics
- Gruber Prize in Cosmology in 2003 for pioneering studies on the nature of the cosmic microwave background and its interaction with intervening matter that led to new cosmological models
- Member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina since 2003
- Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004
- International Member of the American Philosophical Society since 2007
- Crafoord Prize in 2008 for decisive contributions to high-energy astrophysics and cosmology
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2008
- Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft in 2008
