Chan·dra·se·khar (shän dr -s  kär, ch ndr-shkr), Subrahmanyan 1910-1995. Indian-born American astrophysicist. He shared a 1983 Nobel Prize for research on the evolution of stars. |
Chandrasekhar [ˌtʃændrəˈsiːkə]
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(Biographies / Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995) M, USnational of birth: Indian, SCIENCE: astronomer) Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910-95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983
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