01348nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000090007304100080008208200220009010000210011224500450013326000350017830000270021336500140024052007860025465000140104065000190105465000340107370000230110720240930090358.0220427b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0140169075  cAloy  aeng  223a530.092bWALC  aKameshwar C Wali  aChandra:bA Biography of S Chandrasekhar  aNew DelhibPenguin Booksc1991  ax,341 p.bPBc20x13 cm  2Astronomy  aChandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes. "Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures--Indian, British, and American--in which Chandra was successively immersed...I wish I had the job of reviewing this book for the New York Times rather than for Physics Today. If the book is only read by physicists, then Wali's devoted labors were in vain."--Freeman Dyson, Physics Today "An enthralling human document."--William McCrea, Times Higher Education Supplement "A dramatic, exuberant biography of one of the century's great scientists".  aBiography  aAstrophysicist  aChandrashekar nobel physicist  aWALI (Kameshwar C)