Chandrasekhar

American  

[chuhn-druh-sey-ker] / ˌtʃʌn drəˈseɪ kər /

noun

1. Subrahmanyan 1910–95, U.S. astrophysicist and mathematician, born in India: Nobel Prize 1983.

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Chandrasekhar British  

/ ˌtʃændrəˈsiːkə /

noun

1. Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983

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Chandrasekhar Scientific  

/ chăn′drə-sā′kär /

1. Indian-born American astrophysicist who studied the physical processes surrounding the structure and evolution of stars, and determined the limit (now named for him) regarding the growth of white dwarfs. For this work, he received (jointly with American physicist William Fowler) the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

“Lets do a test,” Dundon wrote to two of his senior employees, Karthik Chandrasekhar and Steve Zemaitis.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the country's junior information technology minister, said it had violated the country's IT laws.

From BBC • May 15, 2024

Born in Amritsar on Sept. 25, 1946, Bedi was part of the famous Indian spin quartet with Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan in the 1970s.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2023

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, junior minister for Electronics and Information Technology, said Tuesday that Foxconn’s decision will have no impact on India’s goals for semiconductor fabrication.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

In 1933, the Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar realized that the Pauli exclusion principle had only a limited ability to fight against the squeeze of gravity.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife