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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer born on October 19, 1910, in Lahore . He held United States citizenship and passed away on August 21, 1995, in Chicago .
Chandrasekhar pursued his education at various notable institutions like Trinity College, Cambridge , Presidency College, Chennai , and the University of Cambridge . Arthur Eddington was his doctoral advisor . Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar mentored doctoral students such as Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Donald Edward Osterbrock, Yousef Sobouti, Arthur Code, Eberhart Jensen, Guido Münch, Surindar Kumar Trehan, Bimla Buti, Donat Wentzel, and Anne Barbara Underhill .
His work had a large impact on the field of astrophysics, and he was particularly known for concepts such as the Chandrasekhar limit, dynamical friction, Chandrasekhar number, Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit, Chandrasekhar potential energy tensor, Chandrasekhar virial equations, and the Chandrasekhar equation .
