Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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1 (of 1) Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, known as ‘Chandra’, photographed on 19 October 1983, the day he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the evolution of stars.
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