Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1933 UnitedKingdom
Dissertation: Polytropic distributions
Mathematics Subject Classification: 85—Astronomy and astrophysics

Advisor 1: Ralph Howard Fowler
Advisor 2: Arthur Stanley Eddington

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NameSchoolYearDescendants
Muench-Paniagua, GuidoThe University of Chicago194649
Tuberg, MerleThe University of Chicago1946
Underhill, AnneThe University of Chicago194852
Code, ArthurThe University of Chicago195019
Osterbrock, DonaldThe University of Chicago19528
Helfer, H. LawrenceThe University of Chicago19531
Jensen, EberhartThe University of Chicago1953
Kulsrud, RussellThe University of Chicago195455
Trehan, Surindar KumarThe University of Chicago195813
Lebovitz, NormanThe University of Chicago196122
Sobuti, YousefThe University of Chicago1963
Ostriker, JeremiahThe University of Chicago1964117
Aizenman, MorrisThe University of Chicago1968
Nutku, YavuzThe University of Chicago19692
Friedman, JohnThe University of Chicago197315
Miller, JohnUniversity of Oxford19749
Detweiler, StevenThe University of Chicago19756

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