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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.
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.
V. S. Chandralekha (born 14 August 1947) is an Indian politician and former civil servant, who was the President of the Tamil Nadu state unit of the Janata Party, which merged into the Bharatiya Janata Party on 11 August 2013. M. G. Ramachandran had appointed her as probably the state's second woman collector, after Anna Rajam Malhotra of the ...
K. M. Chandrasekhar (born 20 February 1948) is a retired Indian civil servant, who was the 29th Cabinet Secretary of the Republic of India from 2007 to 2011 for a four-year term under which he directly reported to the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
s. A Chandrasekar (born 2 July 1945) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter, and actor who primarily works within Kollywood . He made his directorial debut with Aval Oru Pachai Kuzhanthai (1978), He got his breakthrough with Sattam Oru Iruttarai (1981).
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 ...
Chandra Shekhar (17 April 1927 – 8 July 2007), also known as Jananayak, was an Indian politician and the prime minister of India, between 10 November 1990 and 21 June 1991.
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]