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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.
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 the ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 was divided equally between Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" and William Alfred Fowler "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical ...
Jun 8, 2018 · CHANDRASEKHAR, SUBRAHMANYAN. ( b. Lahore, Punjab, British India [later Pakistan], 10 October 1910; d. Chicago, Illinois, 21 August 1995), physics, astrophysics, applied mathematics.
Aug 22, 1995 · Dr. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics whose discovery about the evolution of stars pointed toward the existence of "black holes," died yesterday at the University of Chicago...
Aug 21, 1995 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics. Quick Info. Born. 19 October 1910. Lahore, India (now Pakistan) Died. 21 August 1995. Chicago, Illinois, USA. Summary. Chandrasekhar was awarded the Physics Nobel prize for his theoretical work on the gravitational collapse of stars. View six larger pictures.
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.
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