Chandrasekhar,+Subramanyan+4



Subramanyan had many accomplishments in his life. The greatest being the research into black holes and white dwarfs in the atmoshphere. He found the which is now called the Chandrasekhar limit. This describes the maxium mass of a white dwarf and the minnium mass for a star to collapse which is a black hole. He also helped in many other theories like Brownian Motion (1938-1943); theory of the illumination of the Sunlit Sky (1943-1950); the equilibrium and the stability of elliposoidal figures of equilubrium (1961-1968); the general theory of relativity and relativistic astroohysics (1962-1971); and the mathematical theory of black holes (1974-1983). He was one of the greatest scientist of the 20th century.

Home