Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-95)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3532. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Theoretical astrophysicist, born in Lahore, India, Nobel prizewinner (1983) `for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars'. At Cambridge and Copenhagen he developed the theory of white dwarf stars, showing that quantum mechanical degeneracy pressure cannot stabilize a massive star, and that white dwarfs have a maximum mass (the Ch...

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