CHANDRASEKHAR, SUBRAHMANYAN

soobˌrəmänˈyən chŭnˌdrəsāˈkər, 1910–95, American astrophysicist, b. Lahore, India (now Pakistan). He became a professor at the Univ. of Chicago in 1938 and remained associated with the university until his death. In 1953 he became an American citizen. Chandrasekhar was a major figure in the research on energy transfer by radiation in stellar atmospheres. He determined the Chandrasekhar limit, which states that stars 1.44 times as massive as the sun will collapse and become neutron stars. In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with William A. Fowler for their theories regarding the evolution of massive stars. Chandrasekhar's work advanced the understanding of black holes, supernovas, and neutron stars. His books include An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (1939), Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1943), Radiative Transfer (1950), and The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (1983).

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The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-2000
Book by Louise S. Sherby; Oryx Press, 2002
Subjects: Biography--20th Century--Dictionaries, Nobel Prizes
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Distinguished Asian Americans: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Hyung-Chan Kim, Dorothy Cordova, Stephen S. Fugita, Franklin Ng, Jane Singh; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Asian Americans--Biography--Dictionaries
...Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 41...Franklin Ng SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR 1910 1995...India, now in Pakistan , Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was the first son and...
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Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950: The Birth, near Death, and Resurrection of a Scientific Research Institution
Book by Donald E. Osterbrock; University of Chicago Press, 1997
Subjects: Yerkes Observatory--History
...Thornton L. Page in Chicago and Struve, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Gerard P. Kuiper, William W. Morgan, and...the late Joseph Tapscott, and the late Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar were all extremely helpful in providing...
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Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
Book by William H. Cropper; Oxford University Press, 2001
Subjects: Physicists--Biography
...28. Ideal Scholar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 438 29...Gibbs, Meitner, Dirac, Chandrasekhar). All were, or are, extraordinary...Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar, by Kameshwar Wali, copyright...
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E=MC² A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
Book by David Bodanis; Walker Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Einstein, Albert--1879-1955, Force And Energy, Mass (Physics), Mathematical Physics
...destroyed after daring to glimpse the suns fate in the year A.D. 6 billion; and a nineteen-year-old Brahmin, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who discovers something even more fearful, out in the beating heat of the Arabian Sea in midsummer. Through...
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Scientific Misconceptions among Daubert Gatekeepers: The Need for Reform of Expert Review Procedures
Journal article by Jan Beyea, Daniel Berger; Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 64, 2001
Subjects: Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.--113 S. Ct. 2786 (1993), Evidence, Expert--Litigation, Evidence, Scientific--Litigation, General Electric Co. v. Joiner--522 U.S. 136 (1997), Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael--526 U.S. 137 (1999), Products liability--Litigation
...work. Future courts can take advantage of the wisdom therein expressed. (53.) For instance, the physicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar cites Diracs book as one of five examples of "harmoniously organizing a domain of science with order, pattern...


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Revealing the Universe
Magazine article by Chet Raymo; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 25, Autumn 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, The Making of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Book)--Reviews
...images are coming in from the $2 billion Chandra X-Ray Observatory, named for 20th-century astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and launched into Earth orbit by the space shuttle in 1999. These images, in which invisible x-rays are...
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A Man of Power and Resource
Magazine article by J.W. Grove; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 110, Summer 2003
Subjects: Gerhard Herzberg: An Illustrious Life in Science (Book)--Reviews
...with the dazzlingly brilliant astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, known to all astronomers simply as Chandra...hoping to study with Sir Arthur Eddington, Chandrasekhar had worked out the answer to a problem (it had...
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NASA's New Observatory
Magazine article by Rebecca Wyatt; Insight on the News, Vol. 15, October 4, 1999
Subjects: Observatories--Design and construction, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Planning
...into a public archive on the Internet for anyone to access. The orbiting observatory was named in honor of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a pioneer astronomer at the University of Chicago and Nobel Prize winner.


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NASA'S Stellar Success: Photos Certify That $1.5 Billion Telescope Works
Newspaper article by Rebecca Wyatt; The Washington Times, August 27, 1999
...into a public archive on the Internet for anyone to access. The orbiting observatory was named in honor of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , a pioneer astronomer at the University of Chicago and Nobel Prize winner. * This article is based in part...


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Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHANDRASEKHAR, SUBRAHMANYAN soob r man y n chun dr sa k r...1953 he became an American citizen. Chandrasekhar was a major figure in the research...stellar atmospheres. He determined the Chandrasekhar limit, which states that stars 1...
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Fowler, William Alfred
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...especially in the evolution of stars. For his work in this area he shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar . Fowler also studied the radio emissions of quasars and the functioning of subatomic particles such as...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...K. Bergstrom Bengt I. Samuelsson John R. Vane Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1983 Lech Walesa Henry Taube Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar William A. Fowler Barbara McClintock William Golding 1984 Desmond Tutu R. Bruce Merrifield Carlo...


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