SUBRAMANIAM CHANDRASHEKAR - Indian Nobel Prize

INDIAN NOBEL LAUREATES

                                                                                                              SUBRAMANIAM

                                                                                                   CHANDRASHEKAR (1910-1995) 

                            He was born in Lahore (now in Pakistan). He was the nephew of sir C.V. Raman. He was educated at Presidency College, Madras. and at Trinity College, Cambridge, From 1933 to 1937, he held a position at Trinity, Later he joined the University of Chicago and became a US citizen in 1953. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars known as 'Chandrashekhar Limit,' which determines the minimum mass of a dying star which enables it to survive. He authored several books on astrophysics. He also attempted to develop the mathematical theory of black holes, describing his work in The Mathematical theory of Black Holes (1983). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with William Alfred Fowler in 1983.