Chandrasekhar autobiography books
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The book Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali is published by University of Chicago Press.
Who was S Chandrasekhar?
He was the first son of C Subrahmanyan Ayyar and Sitalakshmi (Divan Bahadur) Balakrishnan. He had six sisters and three brothers. He was tutored at home till he was 12-years-old.
Chandrasekhar completed his graduation from the Presidency College in Chennai (then Madras) in 1930. He pursued higher studies at the University of Cambridge after the government awarded him the scholarship.
Bibliographic information ; Editor, Kameshwar C. Wali ; Publisher, World Scientific, ; ISBN, , ; Length, pages ; Subjects.He completed his PhD studies in 1933.
His most important contribution in the field of science was – ‘The Chandrasekhar Limit’ – which explained the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. With this theory, Chandrasekhar showed that the mass of a white dwarf could not exceed 1.44 times that of the Sun.
Back then, it was thought that white dwarfs would be the culminating point for all stars. His calculations made people understand about supernovas, neutron stars and black holes, which was identified in 1972.
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