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Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

Born

in Lahore, India

October 19, 1910

Died

August 21, 1995

Genre

Science, Philosophy

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Also spelled as Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.

Born in Lahore (Punjab), he was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970), winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. His main interests were in astrophysics and hydrodynamics: he studied the stellar structure and evolution and developed a theoretical model to explain the physical nature of white dwarf starts. He worked at the University of Cambridge and at the University of Chicago. In 1953 he became a naturalized citizen of the USA. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, sharing it with William A. Fowler, "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".

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Average rating: 4.18 · 169 ratings · 23 reviews · 33 distinct works • Similar authors

	Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science 4.22 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1973 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Newton's Principia for the Common Reader 4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (Dover Books on Astronomy) by Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar, Space 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1958 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability (International Series of Monographs on Physics) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radiative Transfer 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1960 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1970 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in India 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1972 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hungry People and Empty Lands 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Principles of Stellar Dynamics (Dover Books on Physics) by Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar, Physics it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of his Time really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.”
― Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

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“The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.”
― Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar, Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science

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“I am not religious in any sense; in fact, I consider myself an atheist.”
― Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

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