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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (or “Chandra”) was an Indian-American astrophysicist, best known for his work on the theoretical structure and evolution of stars, and particularly on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars and the calculation of the Chandrasekhar limit.
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He won the Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with William Fowler) in 1983 largely for this early work, although his research also covered many other areas within theoretical physics and astrophysics.
Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born on 19 October 1910 into a Tamil Hindu family in Lahore in the Punjab, British India (later Pakistan).
His father was an accountant with the Indian railways as well as an accomplished Carnatic music violinist and musicologist; his mother was also an intellectual and is often credited with arousing Chandrasekhar's intellectual curiosity early on.
His father's brother was the eminent physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman who won the 1930 Nobel Prize