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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
(Lahore now in Pakistan, October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States) was an Indian-American physicist, astrophysicist and mathematician, known to the world as Chandra, who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with William Alfred Fowler).
He was one of the more distinguished of the ten children of CS Iyer who was a senior Railway official in pre-Independence India, an accomplished Carnatic music violinist from the Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu who authored several authentic books on South Indian musicology. He was posted in Lahore at the time of Chandra's birth. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Nobel-prize winning physicist C. V. Raman, whose father (Chandra's paternal grandfather) was Chandrasekhara Iyer, the name Chandrasekhara repeating itself in alternate generations on the paternal side, according to Hindu custom.
He 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.
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Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan - Brief biography and details of his scientific animosity with Eddington. (Author: Eric W. Weisstein)
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Fairly detailed biography from NASA KIDS.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Brief biography including six photographs, summary of awards, and other references.
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Concise biography from the National Academy of Sciences.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1910-1995 - Brief obituary and photograph (from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day).
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar - Autobiography - Fairly detailed and personal account of his life and work. Includes bibliography of major monographs. (From the Nobel e-Museum)
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