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Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharAuthor: Academy of Achievement
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 - 1995) was an Indian-born American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. Chandrasekhar 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. Language: en-us Genres: Science Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Friday, 29 June, 1990
