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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

1910–1995

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his theoretical studies of the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars. He is best known for the Chandrasekhar limit, the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star, and for his monumental work on radiative transfer, stellar dynamics, and general relativity.

Physics

An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (1939)
Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1942)
Radiative Transfer (1950)
Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability (1961)
The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (1983)
Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (1987)
Newton's Principia for the Common Reader (1995)

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