Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, The Evolutionary Astrophysicist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, The Evolutionary Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American Astro Physicist. He is well known for Chandrasekhar Limit , Chandrasekhar Number , Chandrasekhar Tensor , Chandrasekhar Polarization and many more. He was awarded The Nobel Prize in the year 1983 for Physics. Family and Education Chandrasekhar was born on 19 October 1910 in Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan). His father was Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar and mother was Sita Balakrishnan. He was born in a Tamil family. His father was Deputy auditor general of the Northwestern Railways. His mother was a well-known litterateur. She had translated Henrik Ibsen's A doll's house in the Tamil language. Chandrasekhar's paternal uncle C.V. Raman was a famous scientist and a noble laureate. His family moved to Allahabad from Lahore in 1916. But later after they settled in Madras in 1918. Chandrasekhar got his basic education at home from his parents. His father ...