Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Ph.D.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Ph.D.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
Co-Nobelist: William A. Fowler
Drawing: Harry James
Name: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
Birth: 19 October 1910, Lahore, India (now Pakistan)
Death: 21 August 1995, Chicago, IL, USA
Institution: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Award: “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”
Subject: astrophysics
Portion of Cash: 1/2
Award: “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars”
Biography
A biographical memoir a Memorial Tribute by Eugene N. Parker, National Academy of Sciences, biography 20 pages, 22 pages total.