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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. 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. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in ...
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 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 General of the Northwestern Railways.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in 1910 in Lahore, which at the time was in British India. He was one of ten children born to Sita Balakrishnan and Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar. His father was a government officer while his mother was a highly intellectual woman that translated literary works into Tamil, an Indian dialect. His parents and private tutors schooled Chandra at home until the age of twelve.
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 . Prize motivation: “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars” Prize share: 1/2 .
Oct 28, 2023 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the nephew of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian physicist Sir CV Raman and one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century, was born on October 19, 1910, into a Tamil family in Lahore. The work of the Indian-American astrophysicist is remembered for his research in stellar evolution, particularly white dwarfs and black holes.
The Man Behind The Name. 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 ...
SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR was born into a free-thinking, Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Lahore, India. He was preceded into the world by two sisters and followed by three brothers and four sisters. His mother Sitalakshmi had only a few years of formal education, in keeping with tradition, and a measure of her intellectual strength can be ...
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 ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a creative, prolific genius whose ability to combine mathematical precision with physical insight changed humanity's view of stellar physics. His most famous discovery was that not all stars end up as white dwarf stars, but those retaining mass above a certain limit - today known as "Chandrasekhar's limit," undergo further collapse.
