Remembering Nobel Laureate S. Chandrasekhar during his birth centenary year

摘要

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, Punjab (then a part of British India) on 19 October 1910. Chandra, as he was popu-larly known, attended Hindu High School, Triplicane and Presidency College in Madras (currently Chennai). He went to Cambridge in 1930. While on his voyage to England, he worked out the famous "Chandrasekhar Limit," which has since become a part of folklore of astrophysics.