- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind The Name
Profile of the Indian-American Nobel laureate from NASA's premier X-ray observatory named after him, the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
chandra.harvard.edu/about/chandra.html
- Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan (1910-1995)
Offers a profile of the America-Indian astrophysicist and illustrates the Chandrasekhar limit, the largest mass a white dwarf can attain.
scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Chandrasekhar.html
- Tribute To Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1983 Physics Nobelist
Includes several memorials to the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in physics whose theories about the evolution of stars led to the concept of black holes.
www.tamil.net/people/andrew/subra.htm
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Brief biography of the author of The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Chandrasekhar.html
- Life of a 'Luminous' Star: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Born in Lahore, India, he was one of the first scientists to combine the disciplines of physics and astronomy.
chandrasekhar_info.tripod.com/cgi-bin/Chandrasekhar.html
- Nobel e-Museum: Physics 1983
Awared to Subramanyan Chandrasekhar for his studies of the structure and evolution of stars and to William Alfred Fowler for his studies of the formation of the chemical elements in the universe.
www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1983/index.html
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