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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS (/ ˌ tʃ ə n d r ə ˈ ʃ eɪ k ər /; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) 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 ...
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.
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.
Aug 21, 1995 · Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. He explained the formation and evolution of white dwarfs, the compact stars that result from the collapse of certain-sized stars.
Learn about the life and achievements of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian-American astrophysicist who discovered the limit of white dwarf stars and won the Nobel prize in 1983. Find out how NASA's X-ray observatory was named after him and explore his key papers on dense matter and relativity.
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.
