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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS ( / ˌtʃəndrəˈʃeɪkər /; [3] 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) [4] was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes.
Jun 17, 2024 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born October 19, 1910, Lahore, India [now in Pakistan]—died August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century. He was one of the first scientists to couple the study of physics with the study of astronomy. Chandra proved that there was an upper limit to the mass of a white dwarf.
Biographical. I was born in Lahore (then a part of British India) on the 19th of October 1910, as the first son and the third child of a family of four sons and six daughters. My father, Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar, an officer in Government Service in the Indian Audits and Accounts Department, was then in Lahore as the Deputy Auditor ...
NASA's premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( pronounced: su/bra/mon'/yon chandra/say/kar ). Known to the world as Chandra (which means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit), he was widely regarded as one of the foremost astrophysicists of ...
Aug 21, 1995 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983. Born: 19 October 1910, Lahore, India (now Pakistan) Died: 21 August 1995, Chicago, IL, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar—child prodigy, predictor of black holes, Nobelist, and UChicago professor for nearly 60 years—often distilled his life into two sentences: “I left India and went to England in 1930.
Jan 15, 2016 · The papers of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar include personal and professional correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and offprints of published and unpublished scientific writings, lecture notes, records of the Astrophysical Journal, recordings of interviews and other biographical materials.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. One of the Nobel Prizes in Physics 1983 "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". In his Nobel lecture, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar wrote «There have been seven periods in my life.
Aug 21, 1995 · Chandrasekhar determined that a star with a mass more than 1.44 times that of the sun continues to collapse and blows off its gaseous envelope into a supernova explosion and becomes a neutron star rather than forming a white dwarf star; even bigger stars can continue to collapse into black holes.
