Chemistry: This Day in Science History - August 21 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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This Day in Science History - August 21 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Aug 20th 2011, 22:00 August 21st marks the passing of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist who described the upper limit of the mass of white dwarf stars. This limit is known as the Chandrasekhar limit. Stars with mass below this mark, like our own Sun, will end their lives as white dwarfs. Stars over this limit become neutron stars or black holes. His work combines relativity and quantum mechanics into new understandings of stellar dynamics and the evolution of stars. Find out what else occurred on this day in science history. Follow Chemistry on Facebook or Twitter.

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