- BORN IN 19th OCTOBER 1910 ( LAHORE)
- DIED ON - 21ST AUGUST 1995
- INDO - AMERICAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST
* PROLIFIC WORK -
- STRUCTURE OF STARS
- SRELLAR EVOLUTION
- BLACK HOLES
- FLUID DYNAMICS
* HE DEVELOPED A THEORETICAL MODEL EXPLAINING THE STRUCTURE OF WHITE DWARF STARS
* HE SHOWED THE MASS OF WHITE DWARF COULD NOT EXCEED 1.44 TIMES OF SUN ( CALLED AS - CHANDRASEKHAR LIMIT)
* HE SERVED AS AN EDITOR OF THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL (1952-1971)
* FACULTY OF CHICAGO UNIVERSITY (1937 )
* HE WORK ON RADIATIVE TRANSFER AND QUANTUM THEORY OF THE NEGATIVE ION OF THE HYDROGEN (1943-1950)
AWARDS -
* 1968 - PADMA VIBHUSHAN
* 1983 - NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS ( FOR STRUCTURE And EVOLUTION OF STARS )
* 1952 - BRUCE MEDAL
* 1957 - RUMFORD PRIZE
* 1973 - MARIAN SMOLUCHOSKI MEDAL
* 1989 - GORDON J LAING AWARD
NAMED AFTER -
* NASA NAMED ITS THIRD OF ITS FOUR GREAT OBSERVATORY AFTER CHANDRASEKHAR
* On 23 rd JULY 1999 - THE CHANDRA X- RAY OBSERVATORY WAS LAUNCHED AND DEPLOYED AT SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA
* A MANGNETO HYDRODYNAMICS NAMED AFTER HIM
* THE ASTEROID 1958 CHANDRA NAMED AFTER HIM.
* THE HIMALYAN CHANDRA TELESCOPE NAMED AFTER HIM
* CHANDRA SEKHAR PRIZE OF PLASMA PHYSICS AWARD GIVEN BY ASSOCIATION OF ASIA PACIFIC PHYSICAL SOCIETY ( POST HIS DEATH)
* BOOK -
CHANDRA - A BIOGRAPHY
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