Scientific Autobiography : S. Chandrasekhar: with Selected Correspondence

by Wali, Kameshwar C.

• ISBN13: 9789814299589
• ISBN10: 9814299588
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

S. Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Chandra; was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The year 2010 marks the birth centenary of Chandra. His unique style of research, inward bound, seeking a personal perspective to master a particular field, and then pass on to another, was so unique that it will draw considerable interest and attention among scholars.

Author Biography

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in his office at the University of Chicago, standing beside a picture of Sir Isaac Newton placed on the volumes of the Principia Mathematica, March 1991. Photograph courtesy of Spenta Wadia.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. v
Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
A History of My Papers on ôRadiative Equilibriumö(1943-1948)	p. 3
Turbulence; Hydromagnetism (1948-1960)	p. 21
The Development of the Virial Method and Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (1960-1970)	p. 55
General Relativity (1962-1969)	p. 75
The Fallow Period (1970-1974)	p. 91
General Relativity; Ryerson Lecture; Separation of Dirac Equation (January 1975-August 1977)	p. 109
General Relativity; Kerr-Newman Perturbations (August 1977-December 1978)	p. 127
1979 - A Year of Failures and of Obligations	p. 139
1980, 1981: The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes	p. 151
Postscript: 1982, a Year that Passed	p. 185
The Beginning of the End (1983-1985)	p. 187
Continued Efforts I (September 1985-May 1987)	p. 199
Continued Efforts II (May 1987-September 1989)	p. 213
Continued Efforts III (September 1989-October 1991)	p. 231
Continued Efforts IV (November 1991-December 1994)	p. 251
Notes & Comments	p. 259
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