Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910,Lahore, British India, (now Pakistan) – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics. He attended the Presidency College in Chennai (then Madras), where he graduated from with a degree in physics.

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October 19 - 1910 - Lahore - British India - Pakistan - August 21 - 1995 - Chicago, Illinois - United States - Indian - Physicist - Astrophysicist - Mathematician - 1983 - Nobel Prize in Physics - Presidency College - Chennai

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He was known to the world as simply "Chandra". It was not just at mathematics that Chandra excelled. As a youth, he had also mastered German, devoured everything from Shakespeare to Hardy, and could read up to 100 pages in an hour 'quite easily'. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Nobel-prize winning physicist C. V. Raman.

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Shakespeare - Hardy - C. V. Raman

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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars, though he was upset that the citation mentioned only his earliest work, seeing this as a denigration of a lifetime's achievement. His lifetime's achievement may be glimpsed in the footnotes to his Nobel lecture.

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Nobel Prize in Physics - 1983 - Structure - Evolution of stars

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He served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1937 until his death in 1995 at the age of 84. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953.

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University of Chicago - 1937 - 1995 - Naturalized citizen - United States - 1953

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