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Google honours astrophysicist Chandrasekhar
October 20 , 2017
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- Google made a special doodle to mark the 107th birth anniversary of India-born scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- He was the first astrophysicist to win the Nobel Prize for his studies on the evolution of stars along with Willaim A. Fowler in 1983.
- Chandrasekhar also contributed to the study of the theory of colliding gravitational waves.
- NASA honoured him by naming its top X-ray observatory as the 'Chandra X-ray Observatory'.
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