| Name(s) |
SUBRAHMANYAN (S.)
CHANDRASEKHAR |
| Date of
Birth |
October 19, 1910
- Lahore, Undivided India. |
| Date of
Death |
August 21, 1995
- Chicago, Illinois, United States. |
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Identity |
Indian-American astrophysicist
and applied mathematician. |
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Other Events &
Developments |
- Known world-wide for his “Chandrasekhar
Limit”. It is the maximum
mass of a stable white dwarf star.
- His title FRS means Fellow of
the Royal Society.
- He, jointly with William A.
Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel
Prize for Physics for key
discoveries that led to the
currently accepted theory on the
later evolutionary stages of massive
stars.
- He was the nephew of another
great Indian physicist and Nobel
laureate, viz. Dr. C.V.
Raman.
- He was an honorary member of the
International Academy of Science.
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Awards and Accolades |
- In the Biographical Memoirs of
the Fellows of the Royal Society of
London, R. J. Tayler wrote:
"Chandrasekhar was a classical
applied mathematician whose research
was primarily applied in astronomy
and whose like will probably never
be seen again."
- In 1999, NASA named the third of
its four "Great Observatories" after
Chandrasekhar. The Chandra X-ray
Observatory was launched and
deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia
on July 23, 1999.
- The Chandrasekhar number, an
important dimensionless number of
magnetohydrodynamics, is named after
him.
- he asteroid 1958 Chandra is also
named after Chandrasekhar.
- American astronomer Carl Sagan,
who studied Mathematics under
Chandrasekhar, at the University of
Chicago, praised him in the book The
Demon-Haunted World: "I discovered
what true mathematical elegance is
from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar."
- An exhibition on life and works
of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was
held at Science City, Kolkata, on
January, 2011.
- He is the recipient of the
following awards and recognitions:
- Fellow of the Royal Society
(1944)
- Henry Norris Russell
Lectureship (1949)
- Bruce Medal (1952)
- Gold Medal of the Royal
Astronomical Society (1953)
- Rumford Prize of the
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences (1957)
- National Medal of Science,
USA (1966)
- Padma Vibhushan
(1968)
- Henry Draper Medal of the
National Academy of Sciences
(1971)
- Nobel Prize in
Physics (1983)
- Copley Medal of the Royal
Society (1984)
- Honorary Fellow of the
International Academy of Science
(1988)
- Gordon J. Laing Award
(1989)Humboldt Prize
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