1910 - 1995
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist born on October 19, 1910, and he passed away on August 21, 1995. He is best known for his work on the theoretical underpinnings of the structure and evolution of stars, particularly for developing the Chandrasekhar limit, which describes the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the understanding of stellar astrophysics.