Rashid Sunyaev - Honors and Awards

Honors 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.
• Foreign Member of the Royal Society since 2009
• King Faisal International Prize for Science (Physics) (2009)
• Kyoto Prize (2011)
• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (2012)