History of Astronomy : Persons : Persons (C)

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan

Born: 19 October 1910, Lahore, India [now in Pakistan]
Died: 21 August 1995, Chicago, Ill., USA

Astronomer

Internal documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

Search in:

• A Finding List of Obituary Notes of Astronomers (1900 - 1997)
• This site in general

External documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Short biography, photo, references, and links (Bruce medal.)
• Short biography and reference (Encycl. Brit.)
• Short biography, bibliography and reference (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Short biography and references
• Short biography (24 Aug 1999: disappeared)
• Short biography
• Short biography
• Short biography
• The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
  Including an autobiography.
• Very short biographical data and links
• Tribute to a legend: Dr. Chandrashekhar, by Ananda Vardhana
• Very short biography
• Very short biography
• Biographical data and memories (8 Nov 1995: the page is nearly empty)
• Obituaries, references and links
• Obituary
• Obituary
• Obituary
• Obituary note
  Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year in Review 1995
• Obituaries and books (11 Jun 1996: disappeared)
• Memories (11 Jun 1996: disappeared)
• Ramanujan's Influence on S.C. Chandrasekhar, by Nitin Ingle (24 Aug 1999: disappeared)
• Portraits

Search also in:

• Biographical Index to Sky and Telescope by Kevin Krisciunas (Or see here.)
• World Biographical Index

Archival sources

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• The International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences
• Mary Lea Shane Archives of the Lick Observatory

Namings

• Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Further links

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• Find more about Chandrasekhar with Google

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 2 May 2001. Latest update: 20 Feb 2002
URL: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_chandra.html