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	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Nobel-prize winning physicist C.
		Chandrasekhar had most of his school career and his entire college career in Madras (now Chennai), having attended the PS High School and then the Presidency College from which he graduated with a degree in physics.
		The asteroid 1958 Chandra is named after Chandrasekhar, as is the Chandrasekhar limit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Subramanyan_Chandrasekhar (611 words)

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		Born in Lahore, India, in 1910, theoretical astrophysicist Chandrasekhar was elected to the National Acadamy of Sciences (USA) only two years after he became a US citizen in 1953.
		Chandrasekhar was noted for his work in the field of stellar evolution, and in the early 1930s he was the first to theorize that a collapsing massive star would become an object so dense that not even light could escape it.
		In addition to his work on star degeneration, Chandrasekhar contributed important theorems on the stability of cosmic masses in the presence of gravitation, rotation, and magnetic fields; this work proved to be crucial for the understanding of the spiral structure of galaxies.
	www.photonics.cusat.edu /Indian_scientists1.html (1422 words)

	webindia123-Indian personalities-Scientists-Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
		Chandrasekhar was noted for his work in the field of stellar evolution, and in the early 1930s he was the first to theorize that a collapsing massive star would become an object so dense that not even light could escape it; now known as the Black hole.
		Disappointed, and reluctant to engage in public debate, Chandrasekhar moved to America and in 1937 joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and remained there till his death.
		Chandrasekhar was a creative, prolific genius whose ability to combine mathematical precision with physical insight changed humanity's view of stellar physics.
	www.webindia123.com /personal/scientist/chandra.htm (460 words)

	Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a white dwarf before it turns into a neutron star.
		Chandrasekhar has also investigated the transfer of energy in stellar atmospheres by radiation and convection, and the polarization of light emitted from particular stars.
		Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan) and studied in Madras, India, and at Cambridge, UK, before joining the staff of the University of Chicago, Illinois, 1936.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/C/Chandrasekhar/1.html (178 words)

	A Tribute To Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1983 Physics Nobelist
		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in physics whose theories about the evolution of stars led to the concept of fl holes, died of heart failure on August 21 at the University of Chicago Hospitals.
		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in October of 1910 in Lahore, which is now in Pakistan rather than India as it was at the time of his birth.
		Chandrasekhar was a brilliant student, and while at Cambridge he worked with two of the leading astrophysicists of the time, Edward Milne and Arthur Eddington.
	www.tamil.net /people/andrew/subra.htm (5375 words)

	Aesthetics and Motivation in Arts and Science - Content
		Chandrasekhar's book is a collection of seven lectures which fall into two categories : whereas the first four lectures deals with question of aesthetics and motivations in the pursuit of physical theories, the last three lectures are basically biographical in nature.
		In his deeply elegant, incisive essays Chandrasekhar presents an insight into three topics: (i) The quest for beauty and truth in the theories of Physics, (ii) The similarities and differences in the patterns of creativity of Shakespeare, Beethoven, and Newton, and (iii) The aesthetic base of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
		Chandrasekhar goes on to some length to explain the term quoting even the Oxford Dictionary -- "fun" means "drollery", what Michelson really meant, Chandrasekhar asserts is "pleasure" and "enjoyment" -- evidently "fun" in the colloquial sense, a concept, so familiar in our so called ordinary life has no place in Chandrasekhar's dictionary...
	www.ignca.nic.in /ks_30_cn.htm (2430 words)

	AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY. COULD IT STILL HAPPEN TODAY?
		Chandrasekhar was troubled by this conclusion and began on the voyage to work out the mathematics to demonstrate Eddington's error.
		Chandrasekhar presented his paper refuting Eddington to a 1933 meeting of the British Royal Astronomical Society.
		Chandrasekhar was still on the faculty when he died this month - 60 years later.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950827/08250023.htm (658 words)

	APOD: September 1, 1995 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1910-1995
		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a creative, prolific genius whose ability to combine mathematical precision with physical insight changed humanity's view of stellar physics.
		His detailed mathematical papers and books on a wide variety of astrophysical subjects, including, for example, fl holes, are classic references for research at every level.
		We are proud to acknowledge that an external review by Point Communications has rated Astronomy Picture of the Day in the top 5 percent of all World Wide Web sites.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap950901.html (205 words)

	Web Directory » Web Directory » Science » Astronomy » History » People » Chandrasekhar, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan - Brief biography and details of his scientific animosity with Eddington.
		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Concise biography from the National Academy of Sciences.
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Autobiography - Fairly detailed and personal account of his life and work.
	www.dcpages.com /DC_ODP/?c=Science/Astronomy/History/People/Chandrasekhar,_Subrahmanyan (166 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		Indian National Science academy and many other scientific institutions in India are giving various awards in memory of this brilliant mathematician.
		Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel Laureate in Physics and one of the greatest astrophysicists of modern timesborn on October 19, 1910 in Lahore, (now in Pakistan) to parents Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyaa civil servant and Sita Balakrishnan.
		Being the nephew of the great, C.V. Raman, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics young Chandrashekhar's interest in the subject came naturally to him.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/india/india_leadpersonalities_acad.cfm (1429 words)

	Galaxy K-5: An Interactive Astronomy Learning Center
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar was born in India in 1910.
		This number, 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, is called the Chandrasekhar limit because Chandra was the first person to discover it.
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar made many discoveries in astronomy, but he also taught many scientists.
	www.galaxyk-5.org /people.php (405 words)

	Amazon.com: Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar (Centennial Publications of The University of Chicago Press): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This book "Chandra" is a biography of Chandrasekhar, who is one of the most inspiring and fascinating scientists of Tamil Nadu, India and most certainly a famous scientists in the world.
		Chandrasekhar was famously called by friends and colleagues as Chandra.
		Undaunted by his detractors, trying to adapt to an alien culture with its cold winters and bland, non-vegetarian cuisine, the young scientist plugs on convinced that his calculations are correct.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226870553?v=glance (1762 words)

	Discovering Black Holes -Compact Object
		In the 1930s, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, then a graduate student at Cambridge University, proved that white dwarfs with mass greater than 1.4 times that of the Sun would not be able to support themselves, and would continue to collapse.
		This was such a bizarre concept that Chandrasekhar's thesis advisor, the famous astrophysicist Arthur Eddington remarked that "there ought to be a law of nature to prevent stars from behaving in this foolish way".
		Eddington's prominent opposition to Chandrasekhar's Limit slowed research on compact objects.
	cmi.yale.edu /bh/week2/pages/page6.html (384 words)

	FUSE Observations Strengthen White Dwarf Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sirius B is the size of the Earth and as massive as the sun.
		Theory that describes how white dwarf stars can exist emerged in the early 1930s, when Subramanyan Chandrasekhar — or Chandra, as he was known — calculated the limit to a white dwarf's mass by applying Einstein's theory of special relativity.
		By verifying the Chandrasekhar limit, you put a great deal of astrophysics on much firmer footing," he added.
	uanews.org /cgi-bin/WebObjects/UANews.woa/7/wa/SciDetails?ArticleID=10336 (738 words)

	PHY4241
		A strong emphasis will be placed on explaining the underlying Physics of Stars through simple theoretical models.
		Three giants of the Physics of Stars: Bethe, Chandrasekhar, and Einstein.
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of stars.
	www.physics.fsu.edu /courses/Fall04/ast4217 (382 words)

	Chandrasekar I
		It was therefore possible for him to remain on the fringes of astrophysics until his death in 1944, and still retain the "distinction" of being the "most distinguished" astrophysicist of his time!
		In general Subramanyan Chandrasekar appears to be have been rather adept at damning with faint praise; many of his recorded comments on the great number theorist Ramanujan carry a similar tone.
		Chandra was a brilliant scientist who began his career with major discoveries in his 20's, then continued to do exemplary work until a few days before his death.
	www.fermentmagazine.org /FermentX/Chandra1.html (3931 words)

	Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar — Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
		Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman — Biography (Uncle of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar and 1930 Nobel Laureate) (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
	almaz.com /nobel/physics/1983a.html (140 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The young protege gracefully withdrew from direct confrontation, went on to make major contributions in stellar structure, moved from England to the U.S. and took a Nobel Prize in 1983.
		The irony is that either Eddington or Chandrasekhar, simply by following up the implications of the latter's discovery, could have been the first to chance upon fl holes and neutron stars.
		In a dramatic, exuberant biography of one of the century's great scientists, Syracuse University physics professor Wali shows how a modest man with a love of elegant expression overcame racial prejudice and bureaucratic stumbling blocks.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0226870545 (775 words)

	University of Chicago News: Nobel Laureates
		An extraordinary number of Nobel Laureates have been faculty members, students or researchers at the University of Chicago at some point in their careers.
		Some of the laureates whose work is closely associated with the University of Chicago are Milton Friedman (Economic Sciences, 1986), Subramanyan Chandrasekhar (Physics, 1983), Saul Bellow (Literature, 1976), Charles Huggins (Physiology or Medicine, 1966), and Willard Libby (Chemistry, 1960).
		In addition to these Laureates, Alexei Abrikosov of Argonne National Laboratory (which has been operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy since the laboratory was established in 1946) shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids."
	www-news.uchicago.edu /resources/nobel (560 words)

	Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bitesize Astronomy
		As it turns out, the core of a star has a maximum size it can be and still be a white dwarf, and the physics behind calculating that size is fierce.
		Even today, many decades later, no white dwarf is known with a mass higher than what is known as the Chandrasekhar Limit.
		Chandrasekhar was an amazing person, and his contribution to the physics of astronomy is formidable.
	www.badastronomy.com /bitesize/chandra.html (579 words)

	One Hundred Tamils - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - The Man who “Dwarfed” the Stars
		One Hundred Tamils - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - The Man who “Dwarfed” the Stars
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar – Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1983
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar – Nobel Lecture On Stars, Their Evolution and Their Stability - 8 December 1983
	www.tamilnation.org /hundredtamils/chandrasekhar.htm (1286 words)

	S. Chandrasekhar: the Man Behind the Legend; Hardback; Book
		Chandrasekhar: the Man Behind the Legend; Hardback; Book
		Containing some 30 articles by his former students, his associates and his colleagues, this book is in a sense a memorial volume to the life of Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, who has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics.
		Prices subject to change to be advised on confirmation of order.
	www.netstoreusa.com /mabooks/186/1860940382.shtml (179 words)

	The Superstring Store
		This is a classic book by legendary Indian theoretical physicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.
		Chandrasekhar was the first physicist to seriously proposed that real stars could collapse to become fl holes, and for delivering this challenging wisdom to the heavyweights of his field, the young physicist nearly paid with his career.
		This is a classic text, although modern readers may find the old-fashioned notation ponderous.
	www.superstringtheory.com /store/bhbooks2.html (361 words)

	JS Online:Yerkes Observatory flips its lids
		The financier's reluctance to visit, however, was not shared by the scientific community.
		Since the building was first opened, it has hosted some of the world's most noteworthy astronomical scientists - both as students and visiting scholars - including George Ellery Hale, Edwin Powell Hubble, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Gerard Peter Kuiper, Donald Osterbrock and Carl Sagan.
		For instance, Kyle Cudworth, observatory director and astronomy professor at the University of Chicago, is using the observatory's 105-year-old 40-inch refracting telescope - a scope that uses lenses - to analyze stars in globular clusters.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=62847&format=print (799 words)

	Hubble And Einstein "Weigh" Nearest White Dwarf Star
		As a young graduate student at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar used Einstein's theory of special relativity and quantum mechanics to show how white dwarf stars could exist.
		He also deduced that no white dwarf could ever have more mass than 1.4 solar masses.
		Chandrasekhar's work was dismissed until the 1960s, then recognized with the Nobel Prize in physics in 1983.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/stellar-05x.html (677 words)

	Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Based on this notion, he made a prediction of the energy levels in the carbon nucleus that was later borne out by experiment.
		His co-worker William Fowler eventually won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 (with Subramanyan Chandrasekhar), but for some reason Hoyle’s original contribution was overlooked, and many were surprised that such a notable astronomer missed out.
		Fowler himself in an autobiographical sketch affirmed Hoyle’s pioneering efforts:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Hoyle (1591 words)

	Physics Faculty at University of Chicago
		Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics and of Physics and Director, Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA).
		Experimental physics and astrophysics, star formation and cosmology, observation and new instrumentation.
		Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics.
	physics.uchicago.edu /fac_list.html (384 words)

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