Subramanyan Chandrasekhar

Subramanian Chandrasekhar, FRS, is an Indian-American physicist and astrophysicist, also translated as Chandrasekhar or Chandrasekhar. In 1983, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on stellar structure and evolution. Chandrasekhar held a long-term appointment at the University of Chicago starting in 1937 and became a U.S. citizen in 1953. He had a wide range of interests. He studied German when he was young and read various literary works from Shakespeare to Thomas Hardy.