birth_date: 1910-10-19 00:00:00
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name: Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar
about: Also spelled as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.Born in Lahore (Punjab), he was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. His main interests were in astrophysics and hydrodynamics: he studied the stellar structure and evolution and developed a theoretical model to explain the physical nature of white dwarf starts. He worked at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Chicago. In 1953 he became a naturalized citizen of the USA. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, sharing it with William A. Fowler, "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".Chandrasekhar wrote many textbooks of physics and some Also spelled as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.Born in Lahore (Punjab), he was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. His main interests were in astrophysics and hydrodynamics: he studied the stellar structure and evolution and developed a theoretical model to explain the physical nature of white dwarf starts. He worked at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Chicago. In 1953 he became a naturalized citizen of the USA. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, sharing it with William A. Fowler, "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".Chandrasekhar wrote many textbooks of physics and some divulgation books.[From Wikipedia] ...more
death_date: 1995-08-21 00:00:00