Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
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(1910 - 1995)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 was divided equally between Subramanyan Chandrasekhar "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" and William Alfred Fowler "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe".
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist, was born October 19, 1910, in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). Originally from southern India, his family returned to Madras in 1918, where Chandrasekhar received most of his schooling. He received a B.A. honors degree from Presidency College, Madras University, in 1930, and Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees from Cambridge University in 1933 and 1942. While at Cambridge he studied with R. H. Fowler, P. A. M. Dirac, and E. A. Milne, and also spent periods of time with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and Max Born at Göttingen. He was appointed a Fellow of Trinity College in 1933. In 1936 Chandrasekhar traveled to the U.S. to give lectures at Harvard College Observatory and at Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. Offered positions at both places, he decided to accept the offer from Chicago. He returned to India briefly that year, and in September was married to Lalitha Doraiswamy, a former classmate at Presidency College.
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Sign in to add mentorMax Born | research assistant | 1931 | Universität Göttingen | |
Niels Bohr | research assistant | 1932 | Copenhagen University | |
Ralph H. Fowler | grad student | 1933 | Cambridge | |
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Edward Arthur Milne | grad student | 1933 | Cambridge (MathTree) |
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Chandrasekhar S, Lebovitz NR. (1984) On the onset of relativistic instability in highly centrally condensed stars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 207: 13P-16P |
Chandrasekhar S, Wright JP. (1961) THE GEODESICS IN GODEL'S UNIVERSE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 47: 341-7 |
Chandrasekhar S, Woltjer L. (1958) ON FORCE-FREE MAGNETIC FIELDS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 44: 285-9 |
Backus GE, Chandrasekhar S. (1956) ON COWLING'S THEOREM ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-MAINTAINED AXISYMMETRIC HOMOGENEOUS DYNAMOS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 42: 105-9 |
Chandrasekhar S, Prendergast KH. (1956) THE EQUILIBRIUM OF MAGNETIC STARS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 42: 5-9 |