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SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR
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a Nobel Prize in 1930 for the discovery of the Raman effect, providing direct demonstration of quantum effects in the scattering of light from molecules. Education began at home with Sitalakshmi giving instruction in Tamil en c!
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On his own initiative Chandra read Arnold Sommerfeld's book Atomic Structures and Spectral Lines en c! attenclec!
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stars (i. e., white dwarfs.
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working out the statistical mechanics of the clegenerate electron gas in white dwarf stars, appreciating, as Fowler hac! not, that the upper levels of the degenerate electron gas are relativistic.
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more rapicIly than the gravitational forces so that sufficient contraction must ultimately provide a sufficient pressure to block further contraction. The limiting mass was clearly of the order of the mass M; of the Sun (2 x ]
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to the monthly meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society en c! became acquaintec!
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an interested en c! appreciative audience in the physics community for his work on degenerate stars.
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McCrea notes in his obituary for Chancira that Eciclington began by pointing out that Chancira's calculations were entirely correct baser! on the relativistic degenerate electron gas.
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a brief comment at the "International Colloquium on Astrophysics: Novae en c! White Dwarfs" in Paris in July 1939, but Russell quickly closet!
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States. They arrived at the Yerkes Observatory on Williams Bay on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin on December 2 I, ~ 936.
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An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (1939) contains his clevelopment of the theory of stellar structure, including his work on degenerate stars
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Chancira hac! been offering a repertoire of basic courses in stellar structure and radiative transfer.
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transfer the primary responsibility to the American Astronomical Society (AAS) , although the actual production was to continue at the University of Chicago Press.
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K Trehan put together a book Plasma Physics ~Jniversity of Chicago Press, 1960J baser!
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to the monograph The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (1983~. Chancira also clevelopec!
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. The lectures emphasize the remarkable insights of Eciclington into stellar structure en c!
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The funciamental nature of Chancira's mass limit for degenerate stars has come to be appreciatec! in the astronomy
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selfgravitating bellies, en c! gravitational theory collectively represent a much larger contribution to physics en c!
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1983 The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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