Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 28 years ago |
| Date of birth | October 19,1910 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Lahore |
| Pakistan | |
| Date of died | August 21,1995 |
| Died | Chicago |
| Illinois | |
| United States | |
| Parents | Sitalakshmi |
| Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar | |
| Job | Astronomer |
| Mathematician | |
| Physicist | |
| Spouse | Lalitha Chandrasekhar |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Padma Vibhushan | |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
| Trinity College | |
| Edited works | Classical General Relativity |
| Doctor advisor | Ralph H. Fowler |
| Arthur Eddington | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 541195 |
Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes
An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure
Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium
Principles of Stellar Dynamics
Radiative Transfer
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader
The Theory of Turbulence: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's 1954 Lectures
Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time
The Illumination and Polarization of the Sunlit Sky on Rayleigh Scattering
Plasma Physics: A Course Given by S. Chandrasekhar at the University of Chicago
Selected Papers, Volume 1: Stellar Structure and Stellar Atmospheres
Selected Papers, Volume 7: The Non-Radial Oscillations of Stars in General Relativity and Other Writings
Selected Papers, Volume 2: Radiative Transfer and Negative Ion of Hydrogen
Selected Papers, Volume 5: Relativistic Astrophysics
Selected Papers, Volume 3: Stochastic, Statistical, and Hydromagnetic Problems in Physics and Astronomy
Plasma Physics
Marian Smoluchowski: His Life and Scientific Work
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
Marian Smoluchowski: Selected Scientific Works
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes
An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure
Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium
Principles of Stellar Dynamics
Radiative Transfer
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader
The Theory of Turbulence: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's 1954 Lectures
Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time
The Illumination and Polarization of the Sunlit Sky on Rayleigh Scattering
Plasma Physics: A Course Given by S. Chandrasekhar at the University of Chicago
Selected Papers, Volume 1: Stellar Structure and Stellar Atmospheres
Selected Papers, Volume 7: The Non-Radial Oscillations of Stars in General Relativity and Other Writings
Selected Papers, Volume 2: Radiative Transfer and Negative Ion of Hydrogen
Selected Papers, Volume 5: Relativistic Astrophysics
Selected Papers, Volume 3: Stochastic, Statistical, and Hydromagnetic Problems in Physics and Astronomy
Plasma Physics
Marian Smoluchowski: His Life and Scientific Work
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science
Marian Smoluchowski: Selected Scientific Works
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Life story
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who spent his professional life in the United States. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "...theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
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