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  2. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Wikipedia

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    Subrahmanyan was born in Lahore on 19 October 1910 of the British Raj (present-day Pakistan) in a Tamil family, [10] to Sita Balakrishnan (1891–1931) and Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar (1885–1960) [11] who was stationed in Lahore as Deputy Auditor General of the Northwestern Railways at the time of Chandrasekhar's birth. He had two elder ...

  3. Chandrashekhar - Wikipedia

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    Chandrasekhar, Chandrashekhar or Chandra Shekhar is an Indian name and may refer to a number of individuals. The name comes from the name of an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva . In this form he married the goddess Parvati .

  4. Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Chandrasekhar family - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Satyendra Nath Bose - Wikipedia

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    Satyendra Nath Bose FRS, MP [1] (/ ˈ b oʊ s /; [4] [a] 1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician.He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, in developing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics, and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  7. Chandrasekhar–Friedman–Schutz instability - Wikipedia

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    Chandrasekhar–Friedman–Schutz instability or shortly CFS instability refers to an instability that can occur in rapidly rotating stars with which the instability arises for cases where the gravitational radiation reaction is unable to cope with the change in angular momentum associated with the perturbations.

  8. List of Pakistani Nobel laureates - Wikipedia

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    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (born in Lahore, Punjab Province, British India) United States Physics "For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." [6]

  9. C. V. Raman - Wikipedia

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    C. V. Raman was born in Tiruchirappalli in the Madras Presidency of British India (now Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, India) to Tamil Iyer Brahmin parents, [5] [6] Chandrasekhar Ramanathan Iyer and Parvathi Ammal. [7] He was the second of eight siblings. [8] His father was a teacher at a local high school, and earned a modest income.