Chandra by Kameshwar C Wali

Chandra by Kameshwar C Wali

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Chandra by Kameshwar C Wali

Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes.

Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures--Indian, British, and American--in which Chandra was successively immersed. . . . I wish I had the job of reviewing this book for the New York Times rather than for Physics Today. If the book is only read by physicists, then Wali's devoted labors were in vain.--Freeman Dyson, Physics Today

An enthralling human document.--William McCrea, Times Higher Education Supplement

A dramatic, exuberant biography of one of the century's great scientists.--Publishers Weekly
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ISBN 13 9780226870540
ISBN 10 0226870545
Title Chandra
Author Kameshwar C Wali
Series Centennial Publications Of The University Of Chicago Press
Condition Unavailable
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 1990-12-15
Number of pages 360
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