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30 de abr. de 2024 · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born October 19, 1910, Lahore, India [now in Pakistan]—died August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who, 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 ...
4 de may. de 2024 · May 4, 2024. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a pioneering astrophysicist and mathematician born in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan) in 1910. Despite his extraordinary contributions to our understanding of stellar evolution and black holes, his legacy remains largely unrecognized in his birthplace.
Hace 2 días · In 1931, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron-degenerate matter above a certain limiting mass (now called the Chandrasekhar limit at 1.4 M ☉) has no stable solutions.
Hace 2 días · On his voyage to England from what was then Madras in British India, in 1930, a young physicist by the name of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar pondered upon the formation of these white dwarfs.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Chandra X-ray Observatory, U.S. satellite, one of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) fleet of “Great Observatories” satellites, which is designed to make high-resolution images of celestial X-ray sources. In operation since 1999, it is named in honour of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a pioneer of the field of ...
1 de may. de 2024 · The matter of “fitting in” is also a very real issue. At Cambridge University, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar encountered racism and was ridiculed publicly by his esteemed senior colleague Arthur Eddington for his proposed limit on the mass at which a dying star becomes a white dwarf.
22 de abr. de 2024 · In his 15-year tenure as director, Struve built one of the world’s strongest and most well-balanced observatory staffs, which included theorists such as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and observationalists such as William Wilson Morgan. He pushed his staff to execute observational programs that centred on the application of modern ...
