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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.
The university's first professor to serve as its permanent president, he was an agricultural economist and the university's Provost for Agriculture before becoming its president. Reitz remained actively involved in the university's fund-raising activities until his death in 1993. [13] 6 Stephen C. O'Connell: 1967–73
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.
Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English at the University of Florida; V. James Van Fleet, Commander for the University of Florida ROTC Program, commanding General of U.S. Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War; Carl Van Ness, University of Florida historian and archivist; Gonda Van Steen, Cassas Chair in Greek Studies
Chandrasekhar's model supported Eddington's idea that a star over the critical mass would act as a perfect gas, but according to Chandrasekhar, not all stars would become white dwarfs. This was in direct conflict with Eddington's theories. [2] [3] Soon after, the same year, Chandrasekhar was elected fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. [2] [3]
The Ais or Ays were a Native American people of eastern Florida. Their territory included coastal areas and islands from approximately Cape Canaveral to the Indian River . [ 1 ] The Ais chiefdom consisted of a number of towns, each led by a chief who was subordinate to the paramount chief of Ais; the Indian River was known as the "River of Ais ...
Thoguluva Shesadri Chandrasekar (born 1956) is an Indian gastroenterologist and the founder chairman of Medindia Hospitals, a healthcare facility based in Chennai. [1] He is credited with the performance of over 23,000 endoscopy procedures [ 2 ] and is known for the Braille chart on personal hygiene he prepared in 2015 for the visually impaired ...
Chandrashekhar B. Khare, FRS (born 1968) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California Los Angeles.In 2005, he made a major advance in the field of Galois representations and number theory by proving the level 1 Serre conjecture, [1] and later a proof of the full conjecture with Jean-Pierre Wintenberger.