Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, (born October 19, 1910, Lahore, India [now in Pakistan]—died August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), Indian-born American astrophysicist who, with …

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS ( / ˌtʃændrəˈseɪkɑːr /; [3] Punjabi pronunciation) (19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) [4] was an Indian-American Theoretical Physicist who spent …

August 21, 1985. S. Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan) and received his B.A. at the University of Madras. At the University of Cambridge he earned his Ph.D. under …

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century. He was one of the first scientists to couple the study of physics with the study of …

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an astrophysicist. He discovered that massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. Today we call …

Chandrasekhar became a US citizen in 1953, retired from the University of Chicago in 1980, and continued to be a researcher. 2. In 1979, NASA named the third of its four Great Observatories …

Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Subramanyan Chandrasekhar. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983. Born: 19 October 1910, Lahore, India (now Pakistan) Died: 21 August 1995, …

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) was an Indian-American astronomer who worked as a professor of astronomy at the University of Chicago for almost sixty years. He was born in …

ACTIVE RESEARCH ERA: 20th Century DATE OF DEATH: 08/21/1995 FIELD OF STUDY: Astrophysics AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS OF WORK: Presidency College- B.Sc (w/ honors) …

NASA's premier X-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( pronounced: …