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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 October 1910
- Died
- 21 August 1995
- Place of birth
- Lahore
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Subrahmanyan
- Family name
- Chandrasekhar
- Father
- CS Ayyar
- Spouse
- Lalitha Doraiswamy
- Field of work
- astrophysics, physics, mathematics
- Occupation
- mathematician, physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States, India, British Raj
- Native language
- Tamil
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Henry Draper Medal, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, National Medal of Science, Karl Schwarzschild Medal, Bruce Medal, Dr. Tomalla Prize, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
- academic degree
- Doktor Nauk in Philosophy
- academic thesis
- Polytropic distributions
- cause of death
- cardiac arrest
- described by source
- Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference
- doctoral advisor
- Ralph H. Fowler, Arthur Eddington
- doctoral student
- Donald Edward Osterbrock, Bimla Buti, Donat Wentzel, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Guido Münch, Steven Lawrence Detweiler, Russell Kulsrud, Anne Barbara Underhill, John Charles Miller, Norman Ronald Lebovitz, Morris L. Aizenman, Yavuz Nutku
- educated at
- Trinity College, Presidency College, University of Cambridge, Hindu Higher Secondary School
- Erdős number
- 4
- interested in
- astrophysics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society of London, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, American Astronomical Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, The World Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name
- Chandra
- name in native language
- சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- Chandrasekhar limit, Chandrasekhar number, Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit, Chandrasekhar–Wentzel lemma, Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function, Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation, Chandrasekhar's H-function, Chandrasekhar–Fermi method, Chandrasekhar–Page equations, Chandrasekhar virial equations, Chandrasekhar polarization, Chandrasekhar-Kendall function
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
- relative
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
- significant person
- Donna D. Elbert
- student of
- Arthur Eddington
- writing language
- English
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