PETALING JAYA: The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences, has welcomed Ravigadevi Sambanthamurthi – its first Malaysian scientist – to its ranks.

Originally from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, Natarajan started the talk by discussing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, another Indian scientist who moved to the US to study black holes. “We’re so lucky to be ...

Because while Benjamin Fisher’s book Poe In His Own Time contains fawning accounts lauding Poe as a genius, others malign not only his work but his character. Artist John Frankenstein was particularly ...

His book, “A Crack in Everything,” tells the stories of scientists on the quest to demystify black holes, ... we glimpse Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar of the Chandrasekhar limit, ...

F. Paul Esposito, 80 years of age, a Professor Emeritus of Physics at University of Cincinnati, passed away peacefully at Twin Towers with his wife ...

Raman’s nephew Chandrasekhar studied physics at Presidency College from 1925 to 1930. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his theories on the evolution of stars.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is back row, second from right, Arthur Eddington front row, second from right. Courtesy the AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives He presented this result at a meeting of the ...

Ten thousand billion years more, says the University of Chicago’s astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose book, Principles of Stellar Dynamics, has just been published (University of ...

In July 1930, a 19-year-old student named Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was on a steam boat travelling from his home in India to England to begin his graduate studies at the University of Cambridge.