Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 1983

for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars

Together with: William Alfred Fowler

Citizenship: British Raj India United States
Languages: English
date of birth: 10/19/1910
place of birth: Lahore
date of death: 8/21/1995
place of death: Chicago
Lived: 84 years

educated at: University of Cambridge

academic degree: Doctor
end time: 1933

Trinity College

end time: 1933
start time: 1930

Presidency College

start time: 1921
end time: 1930

Hindu Higher Secondary School
doctoral student: Yavuz Nutku

end time: 1969

Steven Lawrence Detweiler

end time: 1975

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

end time: 1964

John L. Friedman

end time: 1973

Morris L. Aizenman

end time: 1968

Bimla Buti

end time: 1962

Yousef Sobouti

end time: 1963

Norman Ronald Lebovitz

end time: 1961

Surindar Kumar Trehan

end time: 1958

Donat Wentzel

end time: 1960

H. Lawrence Helfer

end time: 1953

Russell Kulsrud

end time: 1954

Eberhart Jensen

end time: 1953

Guido Münch

end time: 1946

Merle Gold

end time: 1946

Donald Edward Osterbrock

end time: 1952

Marshal H. Wrubel

end time: 1949

Anne Barbara Underhill

end time: 1948

Esther M. Conwell

end time: 1948

Arthur Code

end time: 1950

John Charles Miller
employer: University of Chicago

end time: 1985
start time: 1942

Yerkes Observatory

start time: 1937
end time: 1942

Trinity College

start time: 1933
end time: 1937
member of: National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1955

Royal Society of London

start time: 3/16/1944

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

start time: 9/9/1993

American Philosophical Society

start time: 1945

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Astronomical Society
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
The World Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
occupation: astrophysicist
physicist
university teacher
astronomer
mathematician
notable work: Chandrasekhar number
Emden–Chandrasekhar equation
Chandrasekhar potential energy tensor
Chandrasekhar virial equations
Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation
Chandrasekhar polarization
Chandrasekhar's H-function
Chandrasekhar–Wentzel lemma
Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function
Chandrasekhar-Kendall function
Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation
Chandrasekhar limit
Chandrasekhar–Fermi method
Chandrasekhar–Page equations
dynamical friction
Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit
field of work: mathematics
astrophysics
physics

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