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      • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS (/ ˌtʃəndrəˈʃeɪkər /; 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.
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  2. 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.

  3. Aug 17, 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.

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  4. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an astrophysicist. He discovered that massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. Today we call these collapsed stars neutron stars and black holes.

  5. 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

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Oct 19, 2017 · Born on October 19, 1910, to a Tamil family in Lahore – which is now in Pakistan, Chandrasekhar is the nephew of the Nobel Prize-winning Indian physicist C V Raman, who had won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his work in the field of light scattering. He was the first son of C Subrahmanyan Ayyar and Sitalakshmi (Divan Bahadur) Balakrishnan.