수브라마니안 찬드라세카르

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수브라마니안 찬드라세카르(타밀어: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர் 힌디어सुब्रह्मण्यन् चन्द्रशेखर, 영어: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, 1910년 10월 19일 ~ 1995년 8월 21일) 박사는 인도 태생 미국인 천체물리학자이다. 1983년 노벨 물리학상을 수상하였다. 주로 블랙홀과 중성자별을 연구하였다.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars." His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit describes the maximum mass of a white dwarf. Above it, a stellar remnant will collapse to form a neutron star or black hole. Many concepts, institutions and inventions, including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, are named after him.