Rashid Sunyaev is a prominent astrophysicist known for his significant contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. Born on March 1, 1943, in Russia, he is best known for his work on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, which describes the distortion of the cosmic microwave background radiation caused by the passage of the radiation through hot gas, typically found in galaxy clusters.
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