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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, India in 1910. He was one of ten children. Chandra was schooled at home until he was twelve. At home, his parents and private tutors taught him. Chandra attended Hindu High School.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar This article is about the Indian-American physicist. For other uses of Chandra, please see Chandra (disambiguation). For the film director, see Jay Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ...
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Born 19 October 1910(1910-10-19) Lahore, Punjab, British India Died August 21, 1995 (aged 84) Chicago, Illinois, United States ...
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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar 1910-1995 Indian-born American made important theoretical contributions concerning the structure and evolution of stars, especially white dwarfs ...
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Fellow of the Royal Society , English ) was an Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin born United States astrophysicist.... , Venkata Raman, Abdus Salam Abdus Salam ...
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1938 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculates the maximum mass of a white dwarf; more-massive stars will form denser objects See Also... Table of brightest stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Born Lahore, India on Oct. 19, 1910 -Died Chicago, USA in 1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist who studied stellar physics, evolution, and black holes.
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1930 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit, ...
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4 times that of the Sun, a limit discovered in the 1930s by Subramanyan Chandrasekhar when he applied relativity theory to the gases in white dwarfs.
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The modern value of the limit was first published in 1931 by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in his paper "The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs". For a nonrotating white dwarf, it is equal to approximately 5.
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A large Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) has been renamed Chandra, the nickname of the late distinguished astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
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See also: Star, Energy, Sun, Earth, Light
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