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...namesake of the Chandra observatory--Subrahmanyan Chandrasekharan, an Indian astronomer who won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for his work on the evolution of stars--also studied black holes...
...DIED. SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR, 84, Nobel laureate in physics whose work led to the theory of black holes; in Chicago. Chandrasekhar, who studied the death throes of stars as their fuel is exhausted, calculated the Chandrasekhar limit (1.4 times the sun's mass), beyond which collapsing stars continue to compress indefinitely...
...Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 73, of the University of Chicago and William A. Fowler, 72, of Caltech for their work on the evolution of stars. The winner of the chemistry prize was Stanford's Henry Taube, 67, for his elucidation of the basic mechanisms of complex chemical reactions. Scientists agreed that the honors were long overdue. Including the previously announced medicine prize, this year's list of laureates gave the U.S. its first clean sweep in the Nobel science prizes since 1976 and continued four decades of American domination of the awards...
...Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist, Doctor of Science...
...only woman to receive an honorary degree is Barbara McClintock, a geneticist known for her experiments with cell structure. Harvard also honored another scientist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an astrophysicist...