Chandrasekhar

American  

[chuhn-druh-sey-ker] / ˌtʃʌn drəˈseɪ kər /

noun

1. Subrahmanyan 1910–95, U.S. astrophysicist and mathematician, born in India: Nobel Prize 1983.

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Chandrasekhar British  

/ ˌtʃændrəˈsiːkə /

noun

1. Subrahmanyan (ˌsʊbrəˈmænjən). 1910–95, US astronomer born in Lahore, India (now Pakistan). His work on stellar evolution led to an understanding of white dwarfs: shared the Nobel prize for physics 1983

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Chandrasekhar Scientific  

/ chăn′drə-sā′kär /

1. Indian-born American astrophysicist who studied the physical processes surrounding the structure and evolution of stars, and determined the limit (now named for him) regarding the growth of white dwarfs. For this work, he received (jointly with American physicist William Fowler) the 1983 Nobel Prize for physics.

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Example Sentences

Rodgers, Zemaitis and Chandrasekhar all left Santander Consumer and are currently listed as senior executives at Exeter Finance, a subprime car lender where a number of top Santander Consumer employees have landed.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

Born in Amritsar on Sept. 25, 1946, Bedi was part of the famous Indian spin quartet with Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan in the 1970s.

From Washington Times • Oct. 23, 2023

Rajeev Chandrasekhar, junior minister for Electronics and Information Technology, said Tuesday that Foxconn’s decision will have no impact on India’s goals for semiconductor fabrication.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2023

"They are very seriously looking at India as a production and innovation base," Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in the first public comment by an Indian government official on the talks.

From Reuters • May 19, 2023

Chandrasekhar showed that a collapsing star that has about 1.4 times the mass of our sun will have enough gravity to overwhelm the Pauli exclusion principle.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife