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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS (/ˌtʃəndrəˈʃeɪkər/; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant...

limit is about 1.4 M☉ (2.765×1030 kg). The limit was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. White dwarfs resist gravitational collapse primarily through...

V. Raman and his nephew, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, were Nobel laureates in physics. For many members of the Chandrasekhar family there are multiple...

Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute of the early 20th century, English astronomer Arthur Eddington and the Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar disagreed...

surrounding matter in space. It was first discussed in detail by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1943. An intuition for the effect can be obtained by thinking...

astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The Chandrasekhar tensor is a generalization of potential energy in other words, the trace of the Chandrasekhar tensor...

to become a red giant. It is named after the astrophysicists Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Mario Schönberg, who estimated its value in a 1942 paper....

was described by Leverett Davis Jr in 1951 and independently by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Enrico Fermi in 1953. According to this method, the magnetic...

Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation is an initial value ordinary differential equation introduced by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan...

to its own gravitational force, named after Robert Emden and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The equation was first introduced by Robert Emden in 1907. The...

is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Its mission is similar to that of ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft...

Chandrasekhar–Kendall functions are the eigenfunctions of the curl operator derived by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and P. C. Kendall in 1957 while attempting...

Dirac equation in Kerr metric or Kerr–Newman metric. In 1976, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar showed that a separable solution can be obtained from the Dirac...

to the viscosity. It is named after the Indian astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The number's main function is as a measure of the magnetic field...

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...

Euler equations, developed by the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and the physicist Enrico Fermi and Norman R. Lebovitz. Consider...

homogeneous axisymmetric turbulence, named after George Batchelor and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. They developed the theory of homogeneous axisymmetric turbulence...

Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who first predicted its existence theoretically in 1946. Chandrasekhar published a series of 26 papers...

associated with the perturbations. The instability was discovered by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in 1970 and later a simple intuitive explanation for the instability...

Court of India; two Indian physics Nobel laureates, CV Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; several notable mathematicians including Srinivasa Ramanujan...