| Authorised form of name | Chandrasekhar; Subrahmanyan (1910 - 1995) |
| Dates | 1910 - 1995 |
| Date of birth | 19/10/1910 |
| Date of death | 21/08/1995 |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1983 - jointly with William Alfred Fowler |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 16/03/1944 |
| Age at election | 33 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1962; Copley Medal 1984 |
| Relationships | Nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (FRS 1924) |
| Source | Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1996 vol 42 pp 79-94, plate, by R J Tayler
References:
S. Chandrasekhar, 'On Ramanujan's Bust' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 153-157
L Mestel, '"Mathematics of the City of Heaven"', review of S Chandrasekhar, Selected Papers, vols 3, 4, 5, 6 in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 156-158
Raymond Hide, 'Mathematical Physicist par excellence', review of Kameshwar C Wali, Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar in NR 1993 vol 47 pp 322-324
Sir William McCrea, review of S Chandrasekhar, Selected Papers. Vol. 1: Stellar Structure and Stellar Atmospheres. Vol. 2: Radiative Transfer and Negative Ion of Hydrogen in NR 1990 vol 44 pp 137-139
B Thrush, 'Mr Spectroscopy. Gerhard Herzberg: an illustrious life in science by B Stoicheff' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 351 - 352
R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 |
| Code | NA3455 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1944/05 | Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000794 | Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan | nd |
| PB/3/1/3/1 | Correspondence preceding Blackett's paper of May 1947 on Magnetic Spin | 1947-1948 |
| RR/45/54 | Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'On the statistics of similar particles' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | [October 1932] |
| RR/72/52 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'On Heisenberg's elementary theory of turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1949 |
| RR/45/27 | Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'The stellar coefficients of absorption and opacity.— Part II' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | [December 1931] |
| RR/70/58 | Referee's report by Rudolf Ernst Peierls, on a paper 'The softening of radiation by multiple Compton scattering' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 20 September 1947 |
| RR/73/90 | Referee's report by Oliver Graham Sutton, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1950 |
| RR/72/51 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'On Heisenberg's elementary theory of turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1949 |
| RR/39/46 | Referee's report by Arthur Stanley Eddington, on a paper 'A general equation of state and the Debye–Hückel theory on the new statistics' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | [October 1929] |
| PB/1/33/2 | Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society | 1956 |
| RR/73/2 | Referee's report by Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, on a paper 'The theory of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1950 |
| RR/39/47 | Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'A general equation of state and the Debye–Hückel theory on the new statistics' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | [October 1929] |
| RR/45/26 | Referee's report by Edward Arthur Milne, on a paper 'The stellar coefficients of absorption and opacity' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | [June 1931] |
| RR/73/1 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The theory of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 1950 |
| RR/73/91 | Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The decay of axisymmetric turbulence' by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | 19 May 1950 |