Mathematician:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Mathematician
Indian-American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.

Nationality
Indian-American

History

 * Born: 19 October 1910 in Lahore, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)

Theorems and Definitions

 * Chandrasekhar Limit
 * Chandrasekhar Number
 * Chandrasekhar Friction
 * Chandrasekhar-Kendall Function (with )
 * Chandrasekhar's H-Function
 * Emden-Chandrasekhar Equation (with )
 * Chandrasekhar-Page Equations (with )
 * Chandrasekhar Tensor
 * Chandrasekhar Virial Equations
 * Batchelor-Chandrasekhar Equation (with )
 * Schönberg-Chandrasekhar Limit (with )
 * Chandrasekhar's White Dwarf Equation
 * Chandrasekhar Polarization
 * Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-Function
 * Davis-Chandrasekhar-Fermi Method (with and )

Publications

 * 1939: An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure

Also known as
Chandrasekhar was his given name, Subrahmanyan his patronymic.

Known throughout his life as Chandra