When1: 1939
When2: 1987
Who: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar [Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan]
What: astronomer
Where: India
works\ Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structures [1939]; Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science [1987]
Detail: He lived 1911 to 1995 and stated mass limit for making neutron star instead of white-dwarf star, 1.4 times solar mass (Chandrasekhar limit).
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