PHYSICIST

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

1910 - 1995

Photo of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Icon of person Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( CHƏN-drə-SHAY-kər; Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர், romanized: Cuppiramaṇiyaṉ Cantiracēkar; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes. He also devoted some of his prime years to fluid dynamics, especially stability and turbulence, and made important contributions. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics along with William A. Fowler for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars and black holes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is the 222nd most popular physicist (down from 177th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Physicist.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who is most famous for his discovery of the Chandrasekhar limit. This limit states that a star's mass cannot exceed 1.4 solar masses before it collapses into a white dwarf.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar by language

Loading...

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ranks 222 out of 851. Before him are Steven Weinberg, Wolfgang Paul, Robert H. Goddard, Melvin Schwartz, Roy J. Glauber, and Ralph Asher Alpher. After him are Michio Kaku, Andrew Huxley, Makoto Kobayashi, Ettore Majorana, Alexander Prokhorov, and Frederick Reines.

Most Popular Physicists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ranks 29. Before him are Gerda Taro, Chiang Ching-kuo, Eric Berne, Katherine Oppenheimer, Michel Aflaq, and Helenio Herrera. After him are Ronald Coase, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Kim Yong-sik, William Hanna, Samuel Barber, and William Shockley. Among people deceased in 1995, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ranks 27. Before him are Teresa Teng, William Alfred Fowler, Harold Wilson, Patricia Highsmith, Clair Cameron Patterson, and U Nu. After him are Lana Turner, Souphanouvong, Donald Pleasence, Georges J. F. Köhler, Selena, and Alec Douglas-Home.

Others Born in 1910

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1995

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ranks 20 out of 217. Before him are Bacha Khan (1890), Shah Jahan (1592), Bhagat Singh (1907), Arif Alvi (1949), Vasubandhu (400), and Benazir Bhutto (1953). After him are Asanga (300), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Abdus Salam (1926), Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1928), Dev Anand (1923), and Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952).

Others born in Pakistan

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHYSICISTS In Pakistan

Among physicists born in Pakistan, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ranks 1. After him are Abdus Salam (1926), Yash Pal (1926), and Nergis Mavalvala (1968).

Pakistani born Physicists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous