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.

Honors

Awards

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• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1949)
• Bruce Medal (1952)
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1953)
• Henry Draper Medal (1971)
• Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)
• Copley Medal of the Royal Society (1984)

Named after him

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• Asteroid 1958 Chandra
• Chandrasekhar limit

In 1999, NASA named the third of its four 'Great Observatories' after Chandrasekhar. This followed a naming contest which attracted 6,000 entries from fifty states and sixty-one countries. The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999.

Related Topics:
NASA - Chandra X-ray Observatory - Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' - July 23 - 1999

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