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.

Quotation

• "All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be solved in the Kerr spacetime" -- from Chandrasekhar's Nobel lecture, in his summary of his work on black holes.
• "It is, indeed an incredible fact that what the human mind, at its deepest and most profound, perceives as beautiful finds its realization in external nature.? What is intelligible is also beautiful." -- from a lecture, "Beauty and the Quest for Beauty in Science," given by Chandrasekhar at the International Symposium in honor of Robert R. Wilson on 27 April 1979 at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois.
• "God is man's greatest invention"