S. Chandrasekhar

My full name is Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, I'll give you $10 if you can say it correctly. Ask me about Black Holes

[Mr. Drews @mrdrewsscience]

Great words to live your life by!

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow my mom was so awesome. She home schooled me until I was 15, raised 10 kids, and translated literary works into Tamil

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow my wife, Lalitha, out-lived me by 18 years! She died in 2013 at age 102

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow I received a scholarship for Cambridge college created especially for me from the Indian Government

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow I'm the firstborn son of 10 children so I inherited my grandfather's name, Chandrasekhar

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

When I first proposed the Chandrasekhar limit it was obstinately opposed by several other astronomers, they were wrong to doubt me

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

@margburb

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

@hubblebubble673 @NeildeGrasseTy8 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow I've been given 13 different honors, 140 characters just ain't enough for this astronomer

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

“Chandra was one of the great astrophysicists of our time." Actual words spoken by Hans Bethe, German/American nuclear physicist #imthebest

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

They say i died in 1995, but did i really?

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

Hey @SirNewtonsBalls what's your favorite fruit?

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

I taught at the University of Chicago from 1937 until i died (supposedly) in 1995 #ripme #deadoralive

[Percival Lowell @PercivalTheBro]

Look at how beautiful the sun is. I want to fling myself into it

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow in 1999 @NASA launched Chandra (named after me😏). It studies the universe in the x-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

My uncle C. V. Raman ALSO received a Nobel Prize for Physics, I guess awesomeness just runs in the family 👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow I received a Nobel prize for Physics in 1983

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

#didyouknow

[S. Chandrasekhar @subchand1910]

@SirNewtonsBalls #ripinpeace

[Sir Isaac Newton @ahajhdhwiwbs]

@margburb measure his weight in newtons and then @ me