Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s 107th birthday was the theme for Google Doodle today. Google chooses to celebrate the first astrophysicist to win a Nobel Prize for his theory on the evolution of stars today.
The India-born U.S. astrophysicist, who is known for his theory of white dwarfs, studied in Presidency College, Madras and, later, in Cambridge before moving to the U.S. in 1936.
He was barely out of his teens when he wrote his first scientific paper titled “Thermodynamics of Compton Scattering with reference to the Interior of Stars.” Inspired by Fowler’s work based on Fermi-Dirac statistics on the stability of white dwarfs, Chandra, as he was popularly known, turned his attention to investigate the final stages of stellar evolution.
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