Subramanyan Chrasekhar (1910-1995)

Awarded the Prize “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure evolution of the stars.”

Indian-American astrophysicist. Chrasekhar was born in Lahore, Pakistan on October 9, 1910. He gained his M.A. at the Presidency College, Madras, India. He obtained his Ph.D. at Cambridge, was elected to a fellowship. In 1936 he moved to America worked at the University of Chicago the Yerkes Observatory, serving as the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor as professor emeritus. He became an American citizen in 1953. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal society in London the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. Chrasekhar died in Chicago on August 21, 1995.