Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Overview
India
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n origin American
United States
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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
University of Chicago
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faculty from 1937 until his death in 1995 at the age of 84.
Quotations
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.