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 RajUnited StatesIndia
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

occupation: astronomer
university teacher
physicist
mathematician
astrophysicist
field of work: astrophysics
mathematics
physics
educated at: Hindu Higher Secondary School
Presidency College
start time: 1921
end time: 1930
Trinity College
start time: 1930
end time: 1933
University of Cambridge
academic degree: Doctor
end time: 1933
employer: University of Chicago
start time: 1942
end time: 1985
Yerkes Observatory
start time: 1937
end time: 1942
Trinity College
start time: 1933
end time: 1937
member of: Royal Society of London
start time: 3/16/1944
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
National Academy of Sciences
start time: 1955
The World Academy of Sciences
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
start time: 9/9/1993
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Astronomical Society
American Philosophical Society
start time: 1945
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
doctoral student: Steven Lawrence Detweiler
end time: 1975
John Charles Miller
Norman Ronald Lebovitz
end time: 1961
Morris L. Aizenman
end time: 1968
John L. Friedman
end time: 1973
Merle Gold
end time: 1946
H. Lawrence Helfer
end time: 1953
Donald Edward Osterbrock
end time: 1952
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
end time: 1964
Esther M. Conwell
end time: 1948
Russell Kulsrud
end time: 1954
Bimla Buti
end time: 1962
Surindar Kumar Trehan
end time: 1958
Marshal H. Wrubel
end time: 1949
Donat Wentzel
end time: 1960
Anne Barbara Underhill
end time: 1948
Yavuz Nutku
end time: 1969
Arthur Code
end time: 1950
Guido Münch
end time: 1946
Eberhart Jensen
end time: 1953
Yousef Sobouti
end time: 1963
notable work: Chandrasekhar–Fermi method
dynamical friction
Chandrasekhar potential energy tensor
Chandrasekhar virial equations
Emden–Chandrasekhar equation
Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit
Chandrasekhar number
Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation
Chandrasekhar's H-function
Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function
Chandrasekhar polarization
Chandrasekhar-Kendall function
Chandrasekhar–Wentzel lemma
Chandrasekhar limit
Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation
Chandrasekhar–Page equations

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