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05.07.2018
Honorary member of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Rashid Sunyaev received the Marcel Grossman Award at The Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Rome.
The prize is awarded in two categories: organizations and individual scientists. Individual Awards goes to LYMAN PAGE, for his collaboration with David Wilkinson in realizing the NASA Explorer WMAP mission and as founding director of the Atacama Cosmology Telescop, RASHID ALIEVICH SUNYAEV, for the development of theoretical tools in the scrutinising, through the CMB, of the first observable electromagnetic appearance of our Universe and SHING-TUNG YAU, for the proof of the positivity of total mass in the theory of general relativity and perfecting as well the concept of quasi-local mass, for his proof of the Calabi conjecture, for his continuous inspiring role in the study of black holes physics.
"Rashid Sunyaev gave extraordinary contributions to the understanding of physical processes in the universe which identified new and uniquely informative targets for observational cosmology. In particular, the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect, now observed in thousands of clusters of galaxies over the entire sky, has become a cornerstone of cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics, so much so that it is now considered a research field in its own right. Furthermore, Sunyaev’s studies of processes in the early universe responsible for angular anisotropy and frequency distortions of the cosmic microwave background have left a profound and lasting legacy for cosmology. In particular, Sunyaev and Zeldovich predicted the presence of acoustic peaks in the CMB angular fluctuation power spectrum and the existence of baryonic acoustic oscillations", - says the MG Awards Booklet.