Rashid Alievich Sunyaev
Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskva, Ryssland och Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Tyskland
Crafoord Prize - Mathematics and Astronomy 2008
Citation“for his decisive contributions to high energy astrophysics and cosmology, in particular processes and dynamics around black holes and neutron stars and demonstration of the diagnostic power of structures in the background radiation”