Rashid Sunyaev
German-Russian physics researcher
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a German, Soviet, and Russian astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his MS degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1966. He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Wikipedia
Born: 1943 (age 81 years), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Academic advisor: Yakov Zeldovich
Children: Shamil Sunyaev and Ali Sunyaev
Known for: Cosmic microwave background radiation