Won Max Planck Medal (2023).
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Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a Russian 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. 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…
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Born 1 March 1943 · Q836911
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Won Max Planck Medal (2023).
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Won Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class without swords (2021).
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Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,494 times.
EurekAlert!: Rashid Sunyaev and Alexei Starobinsky announced as 2019 Dirac Medalists
Won ICTP Dirac Medal (2019).
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Awarded Clarivate Citation Laureates (2017).
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Awarded State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2016).
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Published “<i>Planck</i>2015 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 9,894 times.
Won Eddington Medal (2015).
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Won Oskar Klein Medal (2015).
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Published “Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes” in Nature — cited 6,325 times.
Published “<i>Planck</i> 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 5,045 times.
Published “Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes” in Nature — cited 4,898 times.
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2012).
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Awarded Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2011).
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Awarded Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010).
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Published “A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations” in Nature Methods — cited 11,769 times.
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (2009).
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Awarded Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2008).
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Awarded Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (2008).
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Awarded Crafoord Prize (2008).
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Won Karl Schwarzschild Medal (2008).
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Max Planck Society: Crafoord Prize 2008 awarded to Rashid Sunyaev
2008 – Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft
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Awarded Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (2005).
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Physics World: Rashid Sunyaev wins cosmology prize
Awarded Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2003).
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Won Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (2003).
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Won Bruce Medal (2000).
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Awarded State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2000).
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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1995).
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Awarded Bruno Rossi Prize (1988).
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“A detailed investigation of the spectrum of fluctuations may, in principle, lead to an understanding of the nature of initial density perturbations since a distinct periodic dependence of the spectral density of perturbations on wavelength (mass) is peculiar to adiabatic perturbations.”
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Studied at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Master of Science (1966).
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Born 1943-03-01.
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