Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS (/ˌtʃəndrəˈʃeɪkər/; 19 October 1910 – 21 August 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist who made significant...
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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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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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Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute of the early 20th century, English astronomer Arthur Eddington and the Indian astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar disagreed...
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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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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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Dynamical friction (redirect from Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar friction)
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...
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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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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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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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