拉希德·苏尼亚耶夫1943—

苏尼亚耶夫1943年出生于塔什干（今乌兹别克斯坦首都），曾就读于莫斯科物理技术学院以及莫斯科大学。

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Tatar: Рәшит Гали улы Сөнәев, Russian: Раши́д Али́евич Сюня́ев; born 1 March 1943) 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 director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, since 1996, and Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 2010.

Honors and awards

1984 – Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

1988 – Bruno Rossi Prize 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 supernova 1987A

• 1991 – Foreign Associate of USA National Academy of Sciences
• 1995 – Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 2000 – Bruce Medal for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy

2000 – State Prize of Russian Federation for research of Black Holes and Neutron stars with GRANAT X-ray and gamma-ray astrophysical observatory in 1990–1998

2002 – Alexander Friedman Prize by Russian Academy of Sciences for the publications on the reduction of brightness of cosmic microwave background radiation in the direction of clusters of galaxies

2003 – Heineman Prize for outstanding work in astrophysics

2003 – Gruber Prize in Cosmology for pioneering studies on the nature of the cosmic microwave background and its interaction with intervening matter that led to new cosmological models

• 2003 – Member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• 2004 – Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2007 – International Member of the American Philosophical Society

2008 – Crafoord Prize for decisive contributions to high-energy astrophysics and cosmology.

• 2008 – Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2008
• 2008 – Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft
• 2009 – Foreign Member of the Royal Society
• 2009 – King Faisal International Prize for Science (Physics)
• 2011 – Kyoto Prize
• 2012 – Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics from the Franklin Institute
• 2013 – Order of Merit of Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
• 2013 – Gold Medal of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (Kazan, Russia)
• 2014 – Einstein Professorship (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• 2019 – Dirac Medal, (ICTP) jointly with Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
• 2019 – Nick Kylafis Lectureship
• 2023 – Max Planck Medal of the DPG