Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910 -1995)

Full Name-

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Born-

19 October 1910 

Died-

21 August 1995

1. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "...theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
2. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.

Known For-

1. Chandrasekhar limit
2. Chandra X-ray Observatory
3. Chandrasekhar friction
4. Chandrasekhar polarization
5. Chandrasekhar-Kendall function
6. Chandrasekhar's H-function
7. Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit
8. Velikhov-Chandrasekhar instability
9. Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation
10. Chandrasekhar's white dwarf equation
11. Chandrasekhar–Wentzel lemma
12. Chandrasekhar number
13. Emden–Chandrasekhar equation
14. Chandrasekhar tensor
15. 1958 Chandra
16. Chandrasekhar virial equations
17. Chandrasekhar's X- and Y-function
18. Discrete Ordinates Method
19. Chandrasekhar's Variational Principle

Awards-

1. FRS (1944)[1]
2. Adams Prize (1948)
3. Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)
4. Copley Medal (1984)
5. National Medal of Science (1966)
6. Royal Medal (1962)
7. Padma Vibhushan (1968)
8. Heineman Prize (1974)