Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (; Punjabi pronunciation; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who spent his professional life in the United States. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "...theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars and black holes. Read more on Wikipedia

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who is most famous for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit. This limit states that a star's mass cannot exceed 1.4 solar masses before it collapses into a white dwarf.