Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world, has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics and applied mathematics. Chandra died in August, 1995. He had forbidden a memorial of the conventional sort, celebrating his life. This book, which contains some 30 articles by his former students, his associates and his colleagues, is in a sense a memorial volume. It says little about his scientific achievements, but shows the human side of Chandra and the various facets of his personality, his memory, his wit and the breadth of his knowledge of art, music, literature, and the humanities in general.
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"Not a biography, this, but an album of verbal portraits of an austere, proud, cultured and deeply humane astrophysicist." -- New Scientist, Feb 1998
Not a biography, this, but an album of verbal portraits of an austere, proud, cultured and deeply humane astrophysicist. -- New Scientist, 1998
The present effort is a fine one, and I recommend the book with enthusiasm. -- Physics World, 1998
Not a biography, this, but an album of verbal portraits of an austere, proud, cultured and deeply humane astrophysicist. -- New Scientist, 1998
The present effort is a fine one, and I recommend the book with enthusiasm. -- Physics World, 1998
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I found this book to be really inspirational. People in the scientific world must read a book of this kind "How all the people saw CHANDRA as a human being from close quarters than a big scientist inside him". I have referred this book to so many already and here is again a chance for the same.
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University of Chicago, Newton's Principia, Yerkes Observatory, The Astrophysical Journal, Royal Society, Williams Bay, Common Reader, New York, Roger Penrose, Enrico Fermi Institute, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Oxford University Press, Professor Chandrasekhar, Valeria Ferrari, Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences, Richard Askey, Hyde Park, United States, World War, Norman Lebovitz, Patterns of Creativity, Raman Research Institute, Trinity College, Abhay Ashtekar New!
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University of Chicago, Newton's Principia, Yerkes Observatory, The Astrophysical Journal, Royal Society, Williams Bay, Common Reader, New York, Roger Penrose, Enrico Fermi Institute, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Oxford University Press, Professor Chandrasekhar, Valeria Ferrari, Current Science, Indian Academy of Sciences, Richard Askey, Hyde Park, United States, World War, Norman Lebovitz, Patterns of Creativity, Raman Research Institute, Trinity College, Abhay Ashtekar New!
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- Truth and Beauty by S. Chandrasekhar on 5 pages
- The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences) by the late S. Chandrasekhar on page 126, page 137, and page 146
- Plasma Physics (Institute of Physics Conference Series) by Culham Laboratory on page 37, and page 38
- Lectures and Essays by Jacob Klein on page 126, and page 128
- Human Being and Citizen: Essays on Virtue, Freedom, and the Common Good by George Anastaplo on page 128, and page 218
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