“I should like to preface my remarks with a personal statement in order that my later remarks will not be misunderstood. I consider myself an atheist”
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit…
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science · Indian-American physicist (1910–1995) · mathematician · physicist · astronomer · astrophysicist · university teacher · also Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanya Chandrasekhar, Chandrasekhar Subrahmanyan, Chandrasekhar
Born 19 October 1910 · Died 21 August 1995 · Q148109
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Published “Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators operating at CMOS-compatible voltages” in Nature — cited 2,321 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “ICDAR 2015 competition on Robust Reading” in 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) — cited 1,296 times.
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2011· 1 entry
As a book titled Fluid flows to Black Holes: A tribute to S Chandrasekhar on his birth centenary
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2010· 1 entry
On account of Chandra's 100th birthday, University of Chicago conducted a symposium titled Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium 2010 which was attended by leading astrophysicists such as Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, Freeman
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2008· 1 entry
Published “Femtocell networks: a survey” in IEEE Communications Magazine — cited 2,432 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Died 1995-08-21.
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded Marcel Grossmann Award (1994).
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1992· 1 entry
Published “Liquid Crystals” — cited 1,560 times.
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Gordon J. Laing Award (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
“Of course, he (Otto Struve) knew I was an atheist, and he never brought up the subject with me”
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1986· 1 entry
Won Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1984).
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1983· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1983).
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Published “Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 39,659 times.
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For his studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars
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Published “Efficient diffuse function‐augmented basis sets for anion calculations. III. The 3‐21+G basis set for first‐row elements, Li–F” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 7,011 times.
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Dr. Tomalla Prize (1981).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1979).
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NASA named the third of its four "Great Observatories" after Chandrasekhar
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded Karl G. Jansky Lectureship (1978).
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1975· 1 entry
Lectured on patterns of creativity in Shakespeare, Beethoven and Newton
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1974).
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1971· 1 entry
Won Henry Draper Medal (1971).
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded Padma Vibhushan in science & engineering (1968).
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1966· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1966).
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At the university, Chandrasekhar occupied one of the four corner offices on the second floor
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1962· 4 entries
Won Royal Medal (1962).
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Won Srinivasa Ramanujan Medal (1962).
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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1962).
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Published “A NOTE ON THE MAXIMUM CRITICAL FIELD OF HIGH-FIELD SUPERCONDUCTORS” in Applied Physics Letters — cited 1,091 times.
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Rumford Prize (1957).
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Two eminent reviewers rejected the paper
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1953· 3 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1953).
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And his wife, Lalitha Chandrasekhar, took American citizenship
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Chandrasekhar became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. in 1953.
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1952· 1 entry
Won Bruce Medal (1952).
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1949· 1 entry
Awarded Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1949).
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Adams Prize (1948).
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1946· 2 entries
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1946).
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When Princeton University offered Chandrasekhar a position vacated by Henry Norris Russell with a salary double that of Chicago's, Hutchins incremented his salary matching with that of Princeton's and persuaded Chandrase
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1944· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1944).
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And despite their disagreements, Chandrasekhar continued to state that he admired Eddington and considered him a friend
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1943· 2 entries
Published “Stochastic Problems in Physics and Astronomy” in Reviews of Modern Physics — cited 7,381 times.
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Published “Dynamical Friction. I. General Considerations: the Coefficient of Dynamical Friction.” in The Astrophysical Journal — cited 1,353 times.
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1941· 1 entry
And to full professor two years later at the age of 33
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1939· 1 entry
Receiving praise from others in the field
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1935· 1 entry
Chandrasekhar was invited by the director of the Harvard Observatory, Harlow Shapley, to be a visiting lecturer in theoretical astrophysics for a three-month period
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1934· 1 entry
Chandrasekhar visited Leningrad, Russia and met other astrophysicists including Viktor Ambartsumian and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
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1933· 2 entries
Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor (1933).
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Studied at Trinity College (1930–1933).
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1930· 2 entries
During his maiden voyage from India to Cambridge, England for his graduate studies
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Studied at Presidency College (1921–1930).
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1929· 1 entry
After being inspired by a lecture by Arnold Sommerfeld
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1928· 1 entry
When he was still an undergraduate student about Compton effect and last paper which was accepted for publication just two months before his death was in 1995 which was about non-radial oscillation of stars
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1910· 1 entry
Born 1910-10-19.
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