Chandrasekhar family

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The **Chandrasekhar family** is an Indian intellectual family. Several members of the family have achieved distinction, notably in the field of physics. Two members of the family, Sir C. V. Raman and his nephew, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, were Nobel laureates in physics.

## Family tree

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* R. Chandrasekhara Iyer (1866 - 1910), m. Parvati Ammal (1869 - 1916)
	+ Chandrasekhara Subrahmanyan Iyer (1885 - 1960), m. Sitalakshmi Iyer (1891 - 1931)
		- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995), m. Lalitha Doraiswamy (1910 - 2012)
		- Rajalakshmi, m.
			* Template:Tree list/final branch Uma (born 1938), m. Parameswaran. Noted Indo-Canadian writer of South Asian-Canadian literature; former English professor at the University of Winnipeg.
		- Template:Tree list/final branchdaughter, m. Viswanathan
			* Template:Tree list/final branch V. Shanta (born 1927)
	+ Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888 - 1970), m. Lokasundari Ammal (1892 - 1980)
		- Template:Tree list/final branch Venkatraman Radhakrishnan (1929 - 2011)
	+ Template:Tree list/final branch Sitalakshmi (1900 - 19?), m. R.B.S. Sivaramakrishnan
		- Sivaramakrishna Ramaseshan (1923 - 2003)
		- Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930 - 2004)
		- Template:Tree list/final branch Sivaramakrishna Pancharatnam (1934 - 1969)

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## First generation

* **C. V. Raman FRS**, was a distinguished physicist whose achievements in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material, the wavelengths of some of the deflected light change. This phenomenon, now known as Raman scattering, results from the eponymous effect.

## Second generation

* **Venkatraman Radhakrishnan** (son of C V. Raman) was a distinguished astrophysicist credited with expanding the field of radio astronomy and for research in pulsars, interstellar clouds and various celestial bodies.
* **Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS** (nephew of C V. Raman) was an Indian American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the best current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive star and black holes. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wali, p. ix
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Parameswaran, pp. 241-250
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4. ↑ "U Minn - Voices from the Gaps: Uma Parameswaran" (PDF). University of Minnesota. 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
5. ↑ "Ryerson University Library & Archives - Uma Parameswaran". Ryerson University. 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Dr. V. Shanta From Chennai Honoured With Padma Vibhushan For Her Service In The Field Of Cancer". Logical Indian. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
7. ↑ "Sir Venkata Raman – Biographical". Nobel Peace Prize – Official website. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
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Parameswaran, Uma (2011). *C. V. Raman: a biography*. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780143066897

Wali, Kameshwar C. (1991). *Chandra: a biography of S. Chandrasekhar*. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-87054-5.