Mikhail Revnivtsev Receives Russian Federation President Prize in Science and Innovation

The Excellence Cluster Universe is excited to announce that Dr. Mikhail Revnivtsev was among the awardees of a Russian Science and  Innovation prize awarded for the first time. The laureates received their awards from Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev in a ceremony in the Kremlin's Catherine Hall on 9 February 2009. The prize was given to four young scientists for their outstanding results in science and  technology. The awardees were endowed with a grant of 2.5 million rubles (approx. 70,000 US-Dollars) each. Mikhail Revnivtsev has been a research fellow with the Universe Cluster since August 2008. He is engaged in studying black holes and  galaxy clusters, his research focusing on the origin of the galactic ridge X-ray emission, being an essential parameter for the energy of stellar and non-stellar components of our galaxy, the Milky Way.