Conduted by KV Narimedu, Madurai

Round I 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round II 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round III 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round IV 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round V 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round VI 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round VII 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round VIII 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round IX 1 2 3 4 5 6

Round X 1 2 3 4 5 6

When Dr.Chandrasekhar

was born and died?

Name the department his father worked in Government of India at the time of

Dr.Chandrasekhar’s Birth?

His mother was devoted to

intellectual pursuits. Name the

book she had translated into

Tamil.

In which year

Dr.Chandrasekhar was

Graduated?

Name the year and the

University Which awarded

him Ph.D.

Name the Paternal Uncle of

Dr.Chandrasekhar who was

awarded Nobel Prize for Physics

When Chandra first proposed the limit that

describes the maximum mass of white dwarfs

1.44 times the solar mass during his fellowship

at Trinity college in the 1930s, it was

obstinately opposed by a famous Scientist.

Name the Scientist.

Name the Scientist who has shared the

Nobel Prize for Physics along with

Dr. Subramanian Chandrasekhar?

On joining the Trinity College, at

Cambridge University he became

a research student of a famous

Professor and Scientist. Name the

person.

Name the famous Physicist whom

Dr.Chandrasekhar met when he

spent a year at the Institute of

theoretical Physics at

Copenhagen.

After the Laboratory for Astrophysics and

Space Research (LASR) was built by

NASA in 1966 at the University,

Chandrasekhar occupied one of the four

corner offices on the second floor. Name

the other Scientists who occupied the

other three corners.

At Trinity College, on the advice of a

Professor he spent a year, as a part of

his graduate studies in the Institute of

Theoretical Physics at Copenhagen.

Name the professor.

Name the last book

published by Dr.

Chandrasekhar at the age of

85 .

Name the title of the two reports

published by Dr.Chandrasekhar

during the World War II during

1943.

Around how many papers

did Dr.Chandrasekhar

published during his

carrier?

. Name at least any three books

published by Dr.

Chandrasekhar during his

lifetime.

Name the Journal published by the

American Astronomical society

for which, from 1952 to 1971

Dr.Chandrasekhar was the Editor.

Dr.Chandrasekhar studied at

Presidency College, University of

Madras, and he wrote his first

research paper while still an

undergraduate there. In which

organisation it was published?

Name the medal Dr.Chandrasekhar

was awarded by the Royal Society in

the Year 1984 for his distinguished

work in theoretical Physics

In which year Dr.Chandrasekhar was honoured emeritus status by the University of Chicago.

In 1952 he was honoured,

distinguished service professor of

Theoretical Physics at the University

of Chicago. Name the honour.

Name the year and the

Organisation, which has named

the third of its four "Great

Observatories’" after

Chandrasekhar.

Name the Asteroid that was

named after Dr.Chandrasekhar.

In which year Dr. Chandrasekhar was

awarded the Gold medal of the Royal

Astronomical Society for his works

in Astronomy.

MICHELANGELO – What role this

famous painter has with

Dr.Chandrasekhar.

Dr.Chandrasekhar Was an Honorary

member of a famous Institute. Name the

Institute.

Dr. Chandrasekhr was one of the key

founders of the Famous Institute at

Chennai. Name the Institute.

Chandra was offered a chair at a Famous

University in 1964 , he replied by return that he

was not interested.

Name the famous University

Dr.Chandrasekhar was very much

interested in Literature. He has very much

interested in Russian authors. Name the

famous book he has read written by

Dostoevski.

Name the President of University of

Chicago who appointed

Dr.Chandrasekhar as Assistant

Professor, in the year 1937.

... there is no such

thing as relativistic

degeneracy

[Chandrasekhar] was a classical applied mathematician whose research was primarily applied in astronomy and whose like will probably never be seen again.

“He was a great scientist,

an accomplished teacher

and a formidable

scholar.

"I discovered what true

mathematical elegance is

from Subrahmanyan

Chandrasekhar."

"Chandrasekhar was one of the great astrophysicists of our time. He was also the greatest master of the English language that I know."

It is my privilege and pleasure to convey to

you the warmest congratulations of the Royal

Swedish Academy of Sciences. May I now

ask you to come forward and receive your

prize from the hands of His Majesty the King.

What is Chandrasekhar’s limit?

Name the space shuttle in

which Chandra X- ray

observatory is deployed?

What is

Chandrasekhar’s

number?

Round VIII-4

Name the first paper he

published at the age of 18, still

he was an undergraduate.

Name the Research laboratory he

worked during World War II?

Padma Vibhushan

Henry Draper Medal

Honorary fellow of International

academy of Sciences

Bruce Medal

Gordon J.Laing

award

Nati0nal Medal of

Science,USA

Name the Academy which presents

the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Who is his favourite English Author?

Which year he won the Nobel Prize?

What his wife’s name?

Name the discovery for which he won the

Nobel Prize

What is his Father’s name?

Born on October 19,1910 at

Lahore now in Paksitan and

died at Chicago on 21,August

1995

Deputy Audit General of

the Northwestern Railways

of India.

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s

House into Tamil

In the year 1930 from

Presidency College, at

Chennai.

Cambridge University

in the year 1933

His paternal uncle Sir

Chandrasekhara Venkata

Raman.

Arthur Eddington

William A.Fowler

R. H. Fowler

Prof. Niels Bohr

The other corners housed John A.

Simpson, Peter Meyer, and

Eugene N. Parker.)

Prof. P. A. M. Dirac

Newton’s Principia for the

Common Reader

On the decay of plane shock

waves and The normal

reflection of a blast wave.

Around 400 papers

An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure (1939), Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1942), Radiative Transfer (1950), Plasma Physics (1960), Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability (1961), Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (1969), Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (1987), and Newton's Principia for the Common Reader (1995) The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes (1983). .

Astrophysical Journal

The paper was published in the

Proceeding of the Royal Society (

The Copley Medal

1985

He served at the university of

Chicago for his entire career,

becoming Morton D. Hull

distinguished Service Professor of

Theoretical Astrophysics

In 1999 NASA

1958 Chandra

1953

Presidency College, Chennai

Alfred William Fowler

Cambridge University

Arthur Eddington

Yerkes' Observatory

University of Chicago

He gave thought-provoking lectures such

as Newton and Michelangelo which he

delivered at the 1994 Meeting of Nobel

Laureates held in Lindau.

International Academy of Science

The Ramanujan Institute of

Mathematics in Madras

Cambridge in 1964

Crime and Punishment

President Robert Maynard Hutchins

Arthur Eddington

In the Biographical Memoirs of

the Fellows of the Royal Society of

London, R. J. Tayler wrote

Kameshwar C. Wali

. American astronomer Carl

Sagan, who studied Mathematics

under Chandrasekhar, at the

University of Chicago, praised

him in the book The Demon-

Haunted World:

Hans Bethe, A Nuclear

Physicist

Presentation Speech by Professor Sven Johansson of the

Royal Academy of Sciences

The value of this limit is about 1.44 times a solar mass.

This was derived by Chandrasekhar in 1930, when he was

a student. The Chandrasekhar Limit plays a crucial role in

understanding the stellar evolution. If the mass of a star

exceeded this limit, the star would not become a white

dwarf. It would continue to collapse under the extreme

pressure of gravitational forces. The formulation of the

Chandrasekhar Limit led to the discovery of neutron stars

and black holes

Columbia

It is an important dimensionless

number of magnetohydrodynamics,

The major work done by Subrahmanyan

Chandrasekhar includes: theory of Brownian motion

(1938-1943); theory of the illumination and the

polarization of the sunlit sky (1943-1950); theory of

the illumination and the polarization of the sunlit sky

(1943-1950); the equilibrium and the stability of

ellipsoidal figures of equilibrium, partly in

collaboration with Norman R. Lebovitz (1961-1968);

the general theory of relativity and relativistic

astrophysics (1962-1971); and the mathematical

theory of black holes (1974- 1983).

“Compton scattering and the new

statistics”

Ballistic Research Laboratories

at Maryland

1988

1952

1989

1966

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

awards the Nobel Prize in Physics

Henric Ibsen

1983

Lalitha Doraiswamy

For his work in the theoretical

structure and evolution of stars

Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Iyer