Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born on October 19, 1910, at Lahore, India (now Pakistan). He graduated from Madras University in 1930, received his Ph.D. at Cambridge University in 1933, and came to the United States three years later. He joined the...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) worked on the origins, structure, and dynamics of stars and earned a prominent place in the annals of science. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist's most celebrated work concerns the radiation of energy from stars,...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-born American astrophysicist and applied mathematician whose work on the origins, structure, and dynamics of stars has secured him a prominent place in the annals of science. His most celebrated work concerns...

1901-1995 Indian-born American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for theoretical studies of the structure and evolution of stars. Chandrasekhar showed that as stars exhaust their nuclear fuel they reach a stage where they...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), English IPA: /ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/) (October 19, 1910, Punjab Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, – August 21, 1995, Chicago,...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an astrophysicist who developed the Chandrasekhar theory, which describes the mass that was once a star once the star collapses, that was rejected by his peers. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1983, long after he wrote the theory,...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a towering figure in 20th-century science, an outstanding astrophysicist who shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics for his work on white dwarf stars and black holes. "Chandra" came from the intellectual elite of India. His father had risen high...