CHANDRASEKHAR SUBRAHMANYAN (1910-1995)

Écrits et articles principaux

S. Chandrasekhar, « The Highly Collapsed Configurations of a stellar mass », in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 91, pp. 456-466, 1931 ; « The Maximum Mass of ideal white dwarfs », in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 74, pp. 81-82, 1931 ; « The Physical State of matter in the interior of stars », in Observatory, vol. 57, pp. 93-99, 1934 ; « The Highly Collapsed Configurations of a stellar mass », in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 95, pp. 207-225, 1935 ; « Stellar Configurations with degenerate cores », in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 95, pp. 226-260, 1935 ; An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1939, rééd. Dover, New York, 1957 ; Principles of Stellar Dynamics, University of Chicago Press, 1942, rééd. Dover, 2005 ; Radiative Transfer, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1950, rééd. Dover, 1960 ; Hydrodynamic and HydromagneticStability, Clarendon Press, 1961, rééd. Dover, 1981 ; « The Dynamical Instability of gaseous masses approaching the Schwarzschild limit in general relativity », in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 140, pp. 417-433, 1964 ; The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes, Clarendon Press, 1983, rééd. Oxford University Press, New York, 1992 ; Eddington. The Most DistinguishedAstrophysicist of his Time, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge (G.-B.), 1984 ; Truth and Beauty. Aesthetics and Motivations in Science, University of Chicago Press, 1987 ; Selected Papers, 6 vol., University of Chicago Press, 1989-1991.

Études

A. I. Miller, Empire of the Stars : Obsession, Friendship, And Betrayal In The Quest For Black Holes, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2005

K. C. Wali, Chandra : A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar, University of Chicago Press, 1991

K. C. Wali dir., S. Chandrasekhar, The Man Behind the Legend, Imperial College Press, Londres, 1997 ; A Quest for Perspectives : Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar, ibid., 2001.