Rashid Sunyaev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rashid Sunyaev

Russian astronomer

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1943

Place of Birth: Tashkent

Profession: astronomer, physicist, inventor, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Rashid Alievich Sunyaev (Tatar: ????? ???? ??? ??????, Russian: ????´? ???´???? ????´??; born 1 March 1943 in Tashkent, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist of Tatar descent.
He was educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MS).
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.