Chandrasekhar

[chuhn-druh-sey-ker]

noun

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

Chandrasekhar

/ 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

Chandrasekhar

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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Born Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar to a film director father and singer mother, he acted in several films as a child.

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Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the state president of the BJP, who had wished the film's team well before its release, later said that he now realised there were "topics in the movie that disturbed Mohanlal fans and other viewers".

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Chandrasekhar Sripada, a professor at the Indian School of Business, agrees with this view.

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Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the country's junior information technology minister, said it had violated the country's IT laws.

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Mr Chandrasekhar and federal IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw have spoken up against deepfakes earlier.

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