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  • Thumbnail for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS (/ˌtʃəndrəˈʃeɪkər/; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant...
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  • V. Raman and his nephew, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, were Nobel laureates in physics. For many members of the Chandrasekhar family there are multiple...
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  • limit is about 1.4 M☉ (2.765×1030 kg). The limit was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. White dwarfs resist gravitational collapse primarily through...
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  • astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandrasekhar tensor is a generalization of potential energy in other words, the trace of the Chandrasekhar tensor...
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    to its own gravitational force, named after Robert Emden and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The equation was first introduced by Robert Emden in 1907. The...
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  • Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation is an initial value ordinary differential equation introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan...
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  • Chandrasekhar–Kendall functions are the eigenfunctions of the curl operator derived by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and P. C. Kendall in 1957 while attempting...
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  • to become a red giant. It is named after the astrophysicists Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Mario Schönberg, who estimated its value in a 1942 paper....
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  • Thumbnail for Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute
    Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute of the early 20th century, English astronomer Arthur Eddington and the Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar disagreed...
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  • Dirac equation in Kerr metric or Kerr–Newman metric. In 1976, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar showed that a separable solution can be obtained from the Dirac...
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  • solution which is a bivariate Gaussian in x and p was solved by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (who also devised a general methodology to solve problems in the...
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  • Euler equations, developed by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and the physicist Enrico Fermi and Norman R. Lebovitz. Consider...
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    Chandrasekhar's H-function appears as the solutions of problems involving scattering, introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar...
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  • was described by Leverett Davis Jr in 1951 and independently by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Enrico Fermi in 1953. According to this method, the magnetic...
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  • Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL), established in 1967 by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar as Part 2 of The Astrophysical Journal, is now a separate journal...
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  • Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1983), The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-850370-5 Chandrasekhar,...
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    doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06479-6. PMID 37758892. S2CID 263129681. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1983). The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes. Clarendon Press...
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    91w3901D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.233901. PMID 14683185. Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1960). Radiative Transfer. Dover. p. 27. ISBN 0-486-60590-6...
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  • introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function X ( μ ) ,   Y ( μ ) {\displaystyle...
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    models precipitated his dispute with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who was then a student at Cambridge. Chandrasekhar's work presaged the discovery of black...
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