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From White Dwarfs to Black Holes - The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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From White Dwarfs to Black Holes - The Legacy of S. Chandrasekhar (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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"From White Dwarfs to Black Holes" chronicles the extraordinarily
productive scientific career of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, one of
the twentieth century's most distinguished astrophysicists. Among
Chandrasekhar's many discoveries were the critical mass that makes
a star too massive to become a white dwarf and the mathematical
theory of black holes. In 1983 he shared the Nobel Prize for
Physics for these and other achievements.
Over the course of more than six decades of active research
Chandrasekhar investigated a dizzying array of subjects. G.
Srinivasan notes in the preface to this book that "the range of
Chandra's contributions is so vast that no one person in the
physics or astronomy community can undertake the task of commenting
on his achievements." Thus, in this collection, ten eminent
scientists evaluate Chandrasekhar's contributions to their own
fields of specialization. Donald E. Osterbrock closes the volume
with a historical discussion of Chandrasekhar's interactions with
graduate students during his more than quarter century at Yerkes
Observatory.
Contributors are James Binney, John L. Friedman, Norman R.
Lebovitz, Donald E. Osterbrock, E. N. Parker, Roger Penrose, A. R.
P. Rau, George B. Rybicki, E. E. Salpeter, Bernard F. Schutz, and
G. Srinivasan.
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