Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Key facts

Born

19 October 1910, Lahore

Died

21 August 1995, Chicago

State of birth

Lahore

Sector

Mathematics

Profession

Indian-American astrophysicist

Gender

Male

Biography

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit describes the maximum mass of a white dwarf. Above it, a stellar remnant will collapse to form a neutron star or black hole. Many concepts, institutions and inventions, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, are named after him.

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Timeline

1. 1910Born in Lahore
2. 1944Awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society
3. 1946Awarded the Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
4. 1948Awarded the Adams Prize
5. 1949Awarded the Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
6. 1952Awarded the Bruce Medal
7. 1953Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
8. 1957Awarded the Rumford Prize
9. 1962Awarded the Royal Medal
10. 1962Awarded the Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal
11. 1962Awarded the Silliman Memorial Lectures
12. 1966Awarded the National Medal of Science
13. 1968Awarded the Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering
14. 1969Awarded the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award
15. 1971Awarded the Henry Draper Medal
16. 1974Awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
17. 1978Awarded the Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
18. 1979Awarded the honorary doctor of Harvard University
19. 1981Awarded the Dr. Tomalla Prize
20. 1983Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
21. 1984Awarded the Copley Medal
22. 1986Awarded the Karl Schwarzschild Medal
23. 1989Awarded the Gordon J. Laing Award
24. 1994Awarded the Marcel Grossmann Award
25. 1995Dies in Chicago