Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist.

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His mother translated literary works into Tamil and he was educated by his parents and private tutors.

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He attended Hindu High School and then Presidency College, and received a scholarship to the University of Cambridge.

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After his studies, Chandra returned home to India and married Lalitha Doraiswamy on 11 September 1936.

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In 1983, Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize in Physics and was one of the few scientists to be awarded the prize for work on astrophysics.

He won the prize for his work on the structure of stars and the evolution of stars.

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