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Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar (Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago Press) - Softcover

Synopsis

Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes.

"Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures—Indian, British, and American—in which Chandra was successively immersed. . . . I wish I had the job of reviewing this book for the New York Times rather than for Physics Today. If the book is only read by physicists, then Wali's devoted labors were in vain."—Freeman Dyson, Physics Today

"An enthralling human document."—William McCrea, Times Higher Education Supplement

"A dramatic, exuberant biography of one of the century's great scientists."—Publishers Weekly

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3. EARLY LIFE  Born : October 19,1910 Lahore  Son of C.Subrahmanyan Ayyar and Sitalakshmi Balakrishnan.  Paternal uncle – Sir C.V.Raman(1888-1970)  Married Lalitha Doraiswamy – in September 1936.

4. Education  Early education at home  1922 : Hindu High School Triplicane India.  1925 : Madras Presidency College  1930 June passed Bachloer’s degree in Physics.  1930 :awarded a govt.of India for graduate studies in Cambridge , England.  1933: completed Ph.D in Cambridge.

5. In 1930, he showed that there is a maximum mass which can be supported against gravity by pressure made up of electrons and atomic nuclei . The value of this limit is about 1.44 times of solar mass .If the mass of a star exceeds the limit, the star would not become a white dwarf .The formulation of the Chandrasekhar limits led to the discovery of neutron stars and black holes. Depending on the mass there are 3 final stages of a star–white dwarf, neutron star & black hole . Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. Subrhamanyan Chandrasekhar is b

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2. Sl. No Topic Page no 1 Pertaining to the scientist 1 2 Chandrasekhar’s works 2 3 Chandrasekhar’s most notable work 3 4 Chandrasekhar’s Legacy 4 5 List of notable awards 5 6 The Chandrasekhar Limit 6 7 According to the limit 7

3. Sl. No Topic Page no 8 Limit according to Physics 8 9 Calculated values for the limit 9 10 Limit value calculation formula 10 11 Application of limit 12 12 Super Chandrasekhar mass supernovae 14 13 Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit 15 14 Conclusions 16 15 Bibliography 17

4. 1910 –1995 Indian- American astrophysici st Nobel Prize Winner

5. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was an Indian- American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for his mathematical theory of black holes, which was a key discovery 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 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930.

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