01440nam a22002417a 4500 20240930090358.0 220427b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0140169075 Aloy eng 23 530.092 WALC Kameshwar C Wali 180712 Chandra: A Biography of S Chandrasekhar New Delhi Penguin Books 1991 x,341 p. PB 20x13 cm Astronomy Chandra 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". Biography 32429 Astrophysicist 32430 Chandrashekar nobel physicist 180703 WALI (Kameshwar C) 32431 ddc GF 222679 222679 0 0 ddc 0 0 PHY AL AL 2013-03-24 0 530.092 WALC GF02125 2022-04-27 00:00:00 2022-04-27 GF