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Oct 15, 2024 · S. Chandrasekhar, 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 stars. Learn more about Chandrasekhar’s life and work.
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.
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.
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 ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (or “Chandra”) was an Indian-American astrophysicist, best known for his work on the theoretical structure and evolution of stars, and particularly on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars and the calculation of the Chandrasekhar limit.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (or `Chandra' as he was generally known) was born at Lahore, the capital of the Punjab Province, in undivided India (and now in Pakistan) on 19th October, 1910. He was a nephew of Sir C V Raman, who was the ̄rst Asian to get a science Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
Aug 21, 1995 · Beginning in the 1930s, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar formulated theories for the development that stars subsequently undergo. He showed that when the hydrogen fuel of stars of a certain size begins to run out, it collapses into a compact, brilliant star known as a white dwarf.
Aug 21, 1995 · 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. Biography. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was known throughout his life as Chandra.
Oct 19, 2020 · On October 19, 1910, Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born. He won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics together with William Alfred Fowler for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars.
Sep 29, 2023 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William Alfred Fowler shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983, for their work on stellar evolution. Although they were born just months apart, and died in the...
