Correct Answer - Option 2 : 1983
The correct answer is option 2, i.e, 1983.
- In 1983, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics along with William A. Fowler.
- Born in 1910 in Lahore, British India Chandrasekhar dedicated his life to the study of stars.
- He discovered that massive stars can collapse under their own gravity to reach enormous or even infinite densities.
- Today, we call these collapsed stars, neutron stars and Black holes.
- The Nobel Laureates C.V Raman was his paternal uncle.
- He studied at Presidency College, Madras and the University of Cambridge.
- Traveling by ship in 1930 to begin his Ph.D at Cambridge, he calculated a number.
- This number is now called The Chandrasekhar Limit in his honour.
- This number determines which star will end up becoming a White Dwarf.
- "If the mass of a White Dwarf is less than or equal to the Chandrasekhar Limit, then and only then will it be stable".
