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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Indian-American astrophysicist born in 1910 who established the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars. Won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical work on stellar structure and evolution.

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