Astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, known as ‘Chandra’, photographed on 19 October 1983, the day he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the evolution of stars.
Chandrasekhar adopted a highly unusual approach to his research, investigating a fresh field of study each decade, such as how stars die, how radiation passes through a star’s atmosphere and the theory of black holes. Each decade he followed a similar routine; writing a series of papers that solved the unsolved problems in that field, before finally publishing a book that summarised his results and presented the whole field in a new and clearer light. However, it is mainly for an early triumph, a theory developed while on a long sea voyage from India to the UK and that began his voyage through the stars, that Chandrasekhar was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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