Rashid Sunyaev

Honors and awards

• 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
• 1991 – Foreign Associate of USA National Academy of Sciences
• 1995 – Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 2000 – Bruce Medal for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy
• 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
• 2002 – Alexander Friedman Prize by Russian Academy of Sciences for the publications on the reduction of brightness of cosmic microwave background radiation in the direction of clusters of galaxies
• 2003 – Heineman Prize for outstanding work in astrophysics
• 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
• 2003 – Member of German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
• 2004 – Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2007 – International Member of the American Philosophical Society
• 2008 – Crafoord Prize for decisive contributions to high-energy astrophysics and cosmology.
• 2008 – Henry Norris Russell Lectureship in 2008
• 2008 – Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomische Gesellschaft
• 2009 – Foreign Member of the Royal Society
• 2009 – King Faisal International Prize for Science (Physics)
• 2011 – Kyoto Prize
• 2012 – Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics from the Franklin Institute
• 2013 – Order of Merit of Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
• 2013 – Gold Medal of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (Kazan, Russia)
• 2014 – Einstein Professorship (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• 2019 – Dirac Medal, (ICTP) jointly with Viatcheslav Mukhanov and Alexei Starobinsky
• 2019 – Nick Kylafis Lectureship
• 2023 – Max Planck Medal of the DPG