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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
(1910-1995)

Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1933

Thesis: Polytropic distributions

Advisor(s): Fowler, Ralph Howard

Students:

AGID	Name	University	Year Degree Awarded
1825	Henrich, Louis Richard	University of Chicago	1942
1927	Williamson, Ralph Elmore	University of Chicago	1943
1954	Krogdahl, Margaret Kiess	University of Chicago	1944
2001	Münch, Guido	University of Chicago	1946
2061	Gold, Merle Eleanor	University of Chicago	1946
2071	Harrison, Marjorie Hall	University of Chicago	1947
2100	Mayer, Harris Louis	University of Chicago	1947
2606	Huang, Su-Shu	University of Chicago	1949
2675	Wrubel, Marshal Henry	University of Chicago	1949
2832	Edmonds Jr, Frank Norman	University of Chicago	1950
3108	Horak, Henry George	University of Chicago	1950
3155	Osterbrock, Donald Edward	University of Chicago	1952
3450	Jensen, Eberhart	University of Chicago	1953
3503	Limber, David Nelson	University of Chicago	1953
3527	Provin, Stanford Stephen	University of Chicago	1953
3724	Backus, George E	University of Chicago	1956
4768	Lebovitz, Norman Ronald	University of Chicago	1961
4774	Wright, James Philip	University of Chicago	1961
4789	Tooper, Robert Forrest	Illinois Institute of Technology	1965
4993	Ostriker, Jeremiah Paul	University of Chicago	1964
4995	Clement, Maurice James Young	University of Chicago	1965
5174	Krefetz, Elliott I	University of Chicago	1966
5190	Rossner, Lawrence Franklin	University of Chicago	1966
5248	Aizenman, Morris L	University of Chicago	1967
5704	Lee, Edward Prentiss	University of Chicago	1969
5749	Nutku, Yavuz	University of Chicago	1969
5841	Greenberg, Philip J	University of Chicago	1970
6015	Bonanos, Sotirios	University of Chicago	1971
6095	Esposito, F Paul	University of Chicago	1971
6388	Stettner, Roger	University of Chicago	1971
6477	Nduka, Amagh	University of Chicago	1972
6729	Friedman, John L	University of Chicago	1973
6747	Miller, Bonnie Duboff	University of Chicago	1973
3272	Helfer, Herman Lawrence	University of Chicago	1953
4550	Vandervoort, Peter Oliver	University of Chicago	1960
1799	Wares, Gordon Webb	University of Chicago	1941
1876	Krogdahl, Wasley Sven	University of Chicago	1942
2319	Underhill, Anne Barbara	University of Chicago	1948
4594	Wentzel, Donat Gotthard	University of Chicago	1960
4853	Kristian, Jerome	University of Chicago	1962
3845	Trehan, Surindar Kumar	University of Chicago	1958
3940	Bisshopp, Frederic Edward	University of Chicago	1959
4817	Buti, Bimla	University of Chicago	1962
5954	Persides, Sotirios C	University of Chicago	1970
2746	Code, Arthur Dodd	University of Chicago	1950

Mentees:

AGID	Name	University	Year Degree Awarded
472	Rottenberg, John Albert	University of Toronto	1949

According to our current online database, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar has 45 students and 1 mentees. We welcome any additional information.

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