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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (/ ˌ tʃ ə n d r ə ˈ ʃ eɪ k ər /; [3] 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) [4] was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes.
In the Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute of the early 20th century, English astronomer Arthur Eddington and Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar disagreed over the correct theory to describe the final stages of a star's lifecycle. During the dispute, Chandrasekhar was at the beginning of his career and Eddington was a renowned physicist ...
The Chandrasekhar family is a distinguished Indian intellectual family, several of whose members achieved eminence, notably in the field of physics. Two members of the family, Sir C. V. Raman and his nephew, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , were Nobel laureates in physics.
The Chandrasekhar limit (/ ˌ tʃ ə n d r ə ˈ ʃ eɪ k ər /) [1] is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. The currently accepted value of the Chandrasekhar limit is about 1.4 M ☉ (2.765 × 10 30 kg). [2] [3] [4] The limit was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. [5]
In astrophysics, Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation is an initial value ordinary differential equation introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, [1] in his study of the gravitational potential of completely degenerate white dwarf stars.
In atmospheric radiation, Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function appears as the solutions of problems involving diffusive reflection and transmission, introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Chandrasekhar–Kendall functions are the eigenfunctions of the curl operator derived by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and P. C. Kendall in 1957 while attempting to solve the force-free magnetic fields. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The functions were independently derived by both, and the two decided to publish their findings in the same paper.
The contents of this article is a list of things named after the Indian-American theoretical physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar limit [1] Chandrasekhar friction; Chandrasekhar polarization; Chandrasekhar–Kendall function; Chandrasekhar's H-function; Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit; Velikhov–Chandrasekhar instability