S. CHANDRASHEKAR
(1910)
Subramanyam Chandrashekar was the third Indian to win the Nobel Prize in science. The others earlier were C.V.Raman and Hargovind Khurana.
S.Chandrashekar was born on October 10, 1910 in Lahore. He studied at Madras. He was a book worm and read many books. He did his B.A. at the Presidency college, Chennai. By that time he had many papers to his credit. He went to Cambridge as fellow of Trinity college. He was in USA at the age of 27 becoming an astrophysicist. Otto Struve, Director of Yerkes observatory and an astronomer offered him a job at the Chicago University.
Chandrashekar worked in yerkes observatory also. He had two students Trung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang at Chicago.
They wanted Subramanyam as their teacher. In 1997 they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Chandrashekar studied the stars. He is best known for “Chandrashekar’s limit”. The fact is that this imposes a limit on the size of a highly dense star known as the white Dwarf. If this type of star has mass in excess of the limit it explodes to become a very bright star called “super nova”. Until all the excess matter is shed into space. Later it was confirmed that all the white dwarf stars in the sky have masses withing this limit. Chandrashekar calculated his limit based on mathematical equations. He also described the formation of “black holes”.
They are super heavy objects. A spoon of which may weigh several thousands of tons. His work on rotating fluid masses and blueness of the sky is highly commendable.
He got the Noble Prize in physics in 1983. He wrote few books and are found valuable.
S.Chandrashekar was born on October 10, 1910 in Lahore. He studied at Madras. He was a book worm and read many books. He did his B.A. at the Presidency college, Chennai. By that time he had many papers to his credit. He went to Cambridge as fellow of Trinity college. He was in USA at the age of 27 becoming an astrophysicist. Otto Struve, Director of Yerkes observatory and an astronomer offered him a job at the Chicago University.
Chandrashekar worked in yerkes observatory also. He had two students Trung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang at Chicago.
They wanted Subramanyam as their teacher. In 1997 they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Chandrashekar studied the stars. He is best known for “Chandrashekar’s limit”. The fact is that this imposes a limit on the size of a highly dense star known as the white Dwarf. If this type of star has mass in excess of the limit it explodes to become a very bright star called “super nova”. Until all the excess matter is shed into space. Later it was confirmed that all the white dwarf stars in the sky have masses withing this limit. Chandrashekar calculated his limit based on mathematical equations. He also described the formation of “black holes”.
They are super heavy objects. A spoon of which may weigh several thousands of tons. His work on rotating fluid masses and blueness of the sky is highly commendable.
He got the Noble Prize in physics in 1983. He wrote few books and are found valuable.
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