Rashid Sunyaev

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (

Sunyaev and Yakov B. Zeldovich developed the theory for the evolution of density fluctuations in the early universe. They predicted the pattern of acoustic fluctuations that have been clearly seen by WMAP and other CMB experiments in the microwave sky and in the large-scale distribution of galaxies. Sunyaev and Zeldovich stated in their 1970 paper, "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." CMB experiments have now seen this distinctive scale in temperature and polarization measurements. Large-scale structure observations have seen this scale in galaxy clustering measurements.

With

• 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^[8]
• 1991 – Foreign Associate of USA
  National Academy of Sciences
• 1995 – Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society^[9]
• 2000 – Bruce Medal for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy^[10][11]
• 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^[12]
• 2002 –
  galaxies^[12]
• 2003 – Heineman Prize for outstanding work in astrophysics^[13]
• 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^[14]
• 2003 – Member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• 2004 – Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences^[15]
• 2007 – International Member of the American Philosophical Society^[16]
• 2008 – Crafoord Prize for decisive contributions to high-energy astrophysics and cosmology.^[17]
• 2008 – Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2008^[18]
• 2008 – Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft^[19]
• 2009 – Foreign Member of the Royal Society
• 2009 –
  King Faisal International Prize
  for Science (Physics)
• 2011 – Kyoto Prize^[20]
• 2012 –
  Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics from the Franklin Institute^[21]
• 2013 – Order of Merit of Republic of Tatarstan, Russia[22]
• 2013 – Gold Medal of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (Kazan, Russia)^[23]
• 2014 – Einstein Professorship (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• 2019 – Dirac Medal, (ICTP)^[24] jointly with Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
• 2019 – Nick Kylafis Lectureship^[25]
• 2023 – Max Planck Medal of the DPG^[26]

Literature

• Bhattacharjee, Y. (31 December 2009). "In the Afterglow Of the Big Bang". Science. 327 (5961). American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): 26–29.
  PMID 20044554
  .

• Ubaydulla Uvatov

References

External links

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