Rashid Sunyaev
MAR 01, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031164
Today is the birthday of astrophysicist Rashid Sunyaev, born in 1943 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1972 Sunyaev and his mentor Yakov Zeldovich proposed that the universe’s oldest light should get an energy boost when it passes through galaxy clusters. Astronomers have exploited this Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect to discover distant galaxies with microwave telescopes. Sunyaev later led an X-ray telescope mission that observed Supernova 1987A. (Image credit: Artem Korzhimanov, CC BY 3.0)
Date in History: 1 March 1943
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