Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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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