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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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. Biography. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was known throughout his life as Chandra.
