Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர்), /ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr/ ( listen)) (October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995) was a British India born Indian-American astrophysicist who, with William A. Fowler, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who won the Nob...
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- Oct 19, 1910
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- Aug 21, 1995 (age 84 years)
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