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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.

Bibliography

  • Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, Arthur I. Miller, Little Brown, 2005
  • The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Clarendon, 1998