Subrahmanyan chandrasekhar biography books
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A Scientific Autobiography: S. Chandrasekhar
S. Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Chandra, was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The year marks the birth centenary of Chandra. His unique style of research, inward bound, seeking a personal perspective to mästare a particular field, and then resehandling on to another was so unique that it will draw considerable interest and attention among scholars. As Chandra elucidates in the preface, the various installments describe in detail the evolution of my scientific work during the past forty years and records each investigation, describing the doubts and the successes, the trials and the tribulations. And the parts my various associates and assistants played in the completion of the different investigations are detailed. It fryst vatten indeed a remarkable and rare document, fascinating to read and experience the joys, frustrations and struggles of a creative mind. In addition, a compilation of selected correspondence, which includes
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Biographical Memoirs: Volume 72 ()
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SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
October 13, –August 21,
BY EUGENE N. PARKER
SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR was born into a free-thinking, Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Lahore, India. He was preceded into the world by two sisters and followed by three brothers and four sisters. His mother Sitalakshmi had only a few years of formal education, in keeping with tradition, and a measure of her intellectual strength can be appreciated from her successful translation of Ibsen and Tolstoy int
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American physicist ()
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (;[3] 19 October – 21 August )[4] was an Indian-Americantheoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics along 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.[5][6] Many concepts, institutions and inventions, including the Chandrasekhar limit and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, are named after him.[7]
Chandrasekhar worked on a wide variety of problems in physics during his lifetime, contributing to the contemporary understanding of stellar structure, white dwarfs,