Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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  1. 2. In 1931 Chandrasekhar visited Germany to spend the summer working with the future Nobel Prize winning physicist __________.
  2. 6. Chandrasekhar was born in this country on October 19, 1910, which is now known as Pakistan.
  3. 7. A scientist that employs the methods and principles of physics and chemistry in the study of astronomical objects and phenomena.
  4. 8. This physicist, and mentor to Chandrasekhar, did not agree with the theories proposed by Chandrasekhar, and is the reason he was not widely credited until later in life.
  5. 10. The number of books published by Chandrasekhar throughout his career.
  6. 12. Chandrasekhar shared his nobel prize win with this physicist
  7. 13. Chandrasekhar received this type of early childhood education.
  8. 14. Chandrasekhar pursued graduate studies at this university, where he ultimately got his Ph.D.
  9. 16. Massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities. This is called a __________.
  10. 18. The government of India awarded a __________ to Chandrasekhar to go to university.
  11. 19. chandrasekhar was married to Lalitha Doriswamy for more than __________ years.
  12. 20. Chandrasekhar became a citizen of this country in 1953.
  13. 21. NASA’s __________ X-ray observatory, named in honor of Chandrasekhar, orbits the earth. This observatory has discovered new black holes, new supermassive black holes, and a new class of black hole.
  14. 22. The concept that states that above a certain mass, electron degeneracy pressure in the core of a white dwarf star is not enough to counterbalance the gravitational self-attraction of the star is known as the Chandrasekhar __________.
Down
  1. 1. Chandrasekhar not only did research but also worked as a _________.
  2. 3. chandrasekhar graduated with a B.Sc. Honors degree in this subject at age 19.
  3. 4. Chandrasekhar joined the staff at the University of __________ in 1938.
  4. 5. When there is not enough of a type of people in a group or organization.
  5. 9. In 1932, Chandrasekhar moved to Denmark where he worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, founded by Nobel Prize winning physicist__________.
  6. 11. Chandrasekhar won this prize for Physics for key discoveries that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars.
  7. 15. chandrasekhar served as editor for the __________ journal for nineteen years.
  8. 17. Chandrasekhar wrote that for all collapsing stars of mass higher than 1.4 solar masses (Chandrasekhar-limit) there were no known forces that could prevent a __________ forming. It is now known that black holes have this at their centres.