Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19 de octobre 1910 in Lahore, India – 21 de augusto 1995 in Chicago, SUA) esseva un astrophysico e ganiator del Premio Nobel.
| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
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| Sexo |
mascule |
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| Nascentia |
1910-10-19 (Lahore) |
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| Decesso |
1995-08-21 (Chicago) |
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| Causa de decesso |
Arrestation cardiac |
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| Loco de reposo |
Wheeling Township Arlington Heights Cemetery[*] |
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| Ethnicitate |
Tamil[*] |
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| Citatania |
Statos Unite de America, India, British Raj[*] |
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| Educate in |
Trinity College[*], Presidency College[*], Universitate de Cambridge, Hindu Higher Secondary School[*] |
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| Occupation |
mathematico, physico, Astronomo, astrophysico[*], academico[*], professor universitari[*] |
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| Obras notabile |
Limite de Chandrasekhar, Chandrasekhar number[*], Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit[*], Chandrasekhar–Wentzel lemma[*], Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function[*], Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation[*], Chandrasekhar's H-function[*], Chandrasekhar–Fermi method[*], Chandrasekhar–Page equations[*], Chandrasekhar virial equations[*], Chandrasekhar polarization[*], Chandrasekhar-Kendall function[*], Chandrasekhar potential energy tensor[*], Emden–Chandrasekhar equation[*], dynamical friction[*], Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation[*] |
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| Religion |
atheismo |
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| Conjuge |
Lalitha Doraiswamy[*] |
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| Parentes |
patre CS Ayyar[*] |
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| Premios |
Fellow of the Royal Society[*], Copley Medal[*], Royal Medal[*], Premio Nobel pro Physica, Henry Draper Medal[*], Henry Norris Russell Lectureship[*], Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society[*], National Medal of Science[*], Karl Schwarzschild Medal[*], Bruce Medal[*], Tomalla Foundation[*], Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship[*], Rumford Prize[*], Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering[*], Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal[*], Gordon J. Laing Award[*], Marcel Grossmann Award[*], Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award[*], Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics[*], Adams Prize[*], honorary doctor of Harvard University[*], Silliman Memorial Lectures[*], Karl G. Jansky Lectureship[*] |
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| Lingua |
anglese |
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| Signatura |
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| Identificatores |
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| ISNI |
000000010854895X |
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| VIAF |
7422653 |
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| Commons |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
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In 1983 ille e Willam A. Fowler ha recipite le Premio Nobel pro Physica, Chandrasekhar pro su contributiones al comprehension del evolution stellar, includente le Limite de Chandrasekhar.
Su oncle, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman alsi ha recipite le Premio Nobel pro Physica, in 1930.
