Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1933
Dissertation:
Polytropic distributions
Mathematics Subject Classification: 85—Astronomy and astrophysics
Advisor 1: Ralph Howard Fowler
Advisor 2: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Students:
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| Name | School | Year | Descendants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aizenman, Morris | The University of Chicago | 1968 | |
| Code, Arthur | The University of Chicago | 1950 | 23 |
| Detweiler, Steven | The University of Chicago | 1975 | 6 |
| Friedman, John | The University of Chicago | 1973 | 15 |
| Helfer, H. Lawrence | The University of Chicago | 1953 | 1 |
| Jensen, Eberhart | The University of Chicago | 1953 | |
| Kulsrud, Russell | The University of Chicago | 1954 | 56 |
| Lebovitz, Norman | The University of Chicago | 1961 | 22 |
| Miller, John | University of Oxford | 1974 | 10 |
| Muench-Paniagua, Guido | The University of Chicago | 1946 | 49 |
| Nutku, Yavuz | The University of Chicago | 1969 | 2 |
| Osterbrock, Donald | The University of Chicago | 1952 | 8 |
| Ostriker, Jeremiah | The University of Chicago | 1964 | 118 |
| Sobuti, Yousef | The University of Chicago | 1963 | |
| Trehan, Surindar Kumar | The University of Chicago | 1958 | 13 |
| Tuberg, Merle | The University of Chicago | 1946 | |
| Underhill, Anne | The University of Chicago | 1948 | 53 |
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