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washiNgtoN d.C. Courtesy of the University of Chicago. SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR. October 13, 1910–August 21, 1995. BY EUGENE N. PARKER. S UBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR was born into a free-think- ing, Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Lahore, India. He was preceded into the world by two sisters and followed by three brothers and four sisters.
S. Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan) and received his B.A. at the University of Madras. At the University of Cambridge he earned his Ph.D. under noted physicist R.H. Fowler and developed the theory of white dwarf stars, showing that quantum mechanical degeneracy pressure cannot stabilize a massive star. He worked at the University of Chicago and its Yerkes Observatory from ...
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. This limit, known as the Chandra limit, showed that stars more massive than the Sun ...
21 de ago. de 1995 · Biography. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was known throughout his life as Chandra. His father was C Subrahmanyan Ayyar and his mother was Sitalaksmi Aiyar. His father, an Indian government auditor whose job was to audit the Northwest Railways, came from a Brahman family which owned some land near Madras (now Chennai), India.
3 de jul. de 2019 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) was one of the giants of modern astronomy and astrophysics in the 20th Century. His work connected the study of physics to the structure and evolution of stars and helped astronomers understand how stars live and die. Without his forward-thinking research, astronomers might have labored far longer to ...
19 de oct. de 2020 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Background Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was known throughout his life simply as Chandra. Born on October 19, 1910 to C Subrahmanyan Ayyar, an Indian government auditor whose job was to audit the Northwest Railways and Sitalaksmi Aiyar in a large family, having two older sisters, three younger brothers and four younger sisters.
1 de nov. de 1996 · In August 1930 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar arrived in London at the age of 19 years and 10 months with the aim of studying for a doctorate at Cambridge. He had already published several papers, including one which had been communicated to the Royal Society by R.H. (later Sir Ralph) Fowler, F.R.S.
