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​ To see image in original location, <[] Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born October 19, 1910 in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar died August 21, 1995 in Chicago, Illinois. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan)
 * __Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar__**
 * Birth**
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 * Place of Birth**

Chandrasekhar's major feilds of study were stellar evolution and stellar structure and the process of energey transfer within the stars.
 * Occupation**

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovered what we know as a black hole. The greatest possible mass of a stable cold star, above which it must collapse and turn into what is known as a black hole. Chandrasekhar showed that such a star would have the unusual properties that the larger its mass, the smaller its radius. There will therefore be a point at which the mass of the star is too great for it to evolve into a white dwarf. A white dwarf is  any  star of average mass and size. He calculated this mass of a star to be 1.4 times the mass of the sun.This since has become known as Chandrasekhar's limit
 * Known For**

Chandrasekhar figured out how a black hole formed. The largest possible mass of a cold star will collapse and turn into a black hole.There will be a point at which the mass of the star is too great for it to evolve into a white dwarf. Chandrasekhar calculated this mass to be 1.4 times the mass of the sun.
 * Science Explanation**

In 1936 Chandrasekhar moved to America and has worked since 1937 at the University of Chicago and the Yerkes Observatory, serving as the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service professor of Theoretical Astrophysics from 1952 to 1986, and as a professor emeritus from 1986.
 * Where Chandrasekhar has Worked**

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar went to Presidency #|College, Madras and got his MD in 1930. He went to Cambridge Universety, Englad and got his #|PhD in 1933.
 * Interesting facts**

Chandrasekhar limit ." Compton's by Britannica . 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica [|Online School] Edition. 8 Sept. 2009 <[]>.
 * References**

"** ** dwarf **  star**." __Encyclopædia Britannica__. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 23 Sept. 2009 < [|http] ://school.eb.com/eb/article-9031648>.

GoogleEarth.Lahore Pakistan. September 22, 2009

John Daintith, editor .Science Biographies volume 2.Danbury:Grolier #|Education, 1997.