Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, strike three.
— Michael Scott

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

Fun Fact #5

Not many people know this, but I served as an editor for the Astrophysical Journal from 1952 to 1971!

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

Fun Fact #4

I unexpectedly was offered the Government of India scholarship to continue my research in England after I graduated.

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Fun Fact #3

Not a lot of people know this, but my first ever book was, “The Compton Scattering and the New Statistics,” in 1929.

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

Fun Fact #2

I received my university education at Presidency College in Madras and earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in 1930.

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

Fun Fact #1

Each time you see a full moon you always see the same side

[Aristarchus @aristarchus_69]

@StephenIsHawk is more recognized than me and he can't even go down the stairs #whatareyougonnadoaboutit

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

On January 11 1935, at a convention. I delivered my paper, showing a graph that made it clear that a star of above a certain mass would inevitably dwindle to nothing and beyond. But Eddington, used the full force of his famed oratorical skills to demolish the me.

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

When I was nineteen, I challenged that a white dwarf much heavier than the sun could not exist, but would undergo an eternal collapse into a tiny point of infinite density, until it slipped though a crevice in space and time, otherwise known as a black hole.

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

I won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for my studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars. #themoreyouknow

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Albert Einstein, a nuclear physicist, took a holiday for a fission trip #ha #haha

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Between 1931 and 1935, I clearly laid out his evidence for the existence of the Chandrasekhar limit. I know it was controversial at the time, and famous scientists like Albert Einstein and Arthur Eddington even spoke out against it. #HatersGonnaHate

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Since we're already on the topic; I also attempted to develop the mathematical theory of black holes. I described my work in The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes. Check your local Barnes and Noble to pick up a copy.

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@ChangDiaz69

[Aristarchus @aristarchus_69]

Just discovered the Earth revolves around the sun and not Uranus @MrHorstmeyer

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@aristarchus_69 India>>>Greece

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @Neil_deGrasse_T]

#tb to when people couldn't accept that Pluto wasn't a planet

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@edmundhalley56 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.

[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar @subrah_brah]

Quick shoutout to Regina! Her favorite restaurant is Chipotle!

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I am pretty sure any white dwarf with a mass less than 1.4 times that of the suns, will stay a white dwarf forever, while a star that exceeds this mass is destined to end its life in that most violent of explosions: a supernova. 🤯🤯🤯