| Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  Born: 19-Oct-1910
Birthplace: Lahore, India
Died: 21-Aug-1995
Location of death: Chicago, IL
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Hindu
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Evolution stages of stars Father: Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar (civil servant)
Mother: Sita Balakrishnan
Wife: Lalitha Doraiswamy (m. 1936)
High School: Hindu High School, Triplicane (1922-25)
University: BSc Physics, Presidency College, Madras (1925-30)
University: University of Madras
University: PhD, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1933)
Scholar: Prize Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge University (1933-37)
Professor: University of Chicago (1937-95)
American Astronomical Society
Nobel Prize for Physics 1983 (with William A. Fowler)
Bruce Medal 1952
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1953
Rumford Prize 1957
Royal Medal 1962
Henry Draper Medal 1971
Copley Medal 1984
Naturalized US Citizen 1953
Heart Bypass Operation (1977)
Indian Ancestry
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