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S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world - has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics. Before his death in 1995, Chandra had forbidden a memorial of the conventional sort, celebrating his...
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World Scientific
1997
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author | Wali, Kameshwar C |
author_facet | Wali, Kameshwar C |
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description | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world - has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics. Before his death in 1995, Chandra had forbidden a memorial of the conventional sort, celebrating his life. This book, which contains some thirty articles by his former students, his associates, and his colleagues, is in a sense a memorial volume. It says little about Chandra's great scientific achievements, but shows his human side and the various facets of his brilliant personality, his incredible |
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spelling | cern-4043882021-04-22T03:14:35Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/404388engWali, Kameshwar CS Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legendBiography, Geography, HistorySubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world - has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics. Before his death in 1995, Chandra had forbidden a memorial of the conventional sort, celebrating his life. This book, which contains some thirty articles by his former students, his associates, and his colleagues, is in a sense a memorial volume. It says little about Chandra's great scientific achievements, but shows his human side and the various facets of his brilliant personality, his incredibleWorld Scientificoai:cds.cern.ch:4043881997 |
spellingShingle | Biography, Geography, History Wali, Kameshwar C S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
title | S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
title_full | S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
title_fullStr | S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
title_full_unstemmed | S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
title_short | S Chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
title_sort | s chandrasekhar: the man behind the legend |
topic | Biography, Geography, History |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/404388 |
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