Dannie Heineman Prize for Rashid A. Sunyaev
28. April 2003

Press release of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft:
http://www.mpg.de/pri03/pri0332.htm

AAS Awards webpage:
http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.html#heineman

According to the AAS/AIP announcement Prof. Rashid Sunyaev has been awarded the 2003
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics.

The citation reads: "The Dannie Heineman Prize for 2003 is awarded to Rashid Sunyaev
for his visionary insights into the interaction of radiation and matter on scales
from the Universe to black holes."

The list of previous recipients, all of which are well known by crutial
contributions to astrophysics of the last 3 decades, is given below.

The Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is awarded jointly by the American Institute
of Physics and the American Astronomical Society and is funded by the Heineman
Foundation. It was established in 1979, to recognize outstanding work in the
field of astrophysics.

Year			Recipient
1980			Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
1981			Riccardo Giacconi
1982			P. James E. Peebles
1983			Irwin I. Shapiro
1984			Martin J. Rees
1985			Sandra M. Faber
1986			Hyron Spinrad
1987			David L. Lambert
1988			James E. Gunn
1989			Carl E. Heiles
1990			Richard McCray
1991			Wallace L. W. Sargent
1992			Bohdan Paczynski
1993			John C. Mather
1994			John N. Bahcall
1995			Jerry E. Nelson
1996			Roger A. Chevalier
1997			Scott D. Tremaine
1998			Roger D. Blandford
1999			Kenneth C. Freeman
2000			Frank H. Shu
2001			Bruce G. Elmegreen
2002			J. Richard Bond