Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar
GPTKB entity
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astronomer
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gptkb:Presidency_College,_Chennai
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gptkb:Copley_Medal
gptkb:Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society
gptkb:Henry_Draper_Medal
gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics
gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1910-10-19
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gptkbp:causeOfDeath heart failure
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:India
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:deathDate 1995-08-21
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Chicago
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Ralph_H._Fowler
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Astrophysical_Journal
gptkbp:employer gptkb:University_of_Chicago
gptkbp:field astrophysics
physics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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stellar evolution
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gptkb:Tamil
English
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gptkb:Principles_of_Stellar_Dynamics
gptkb:The_Mathematical_Theory_of_Black_Holes
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