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Born October 6, 1893 • India
Died February 16, 1956 (aged 62) • Delhi • India
Subjects Of Study Saha equation
Swings, Pol
Pol Swings
Belgian astronomer
Edward Arthur Milne
British astrophysicist
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
France A. Córdova
France A. Córdova
French-born American astrophysicist
Viktor Ambartsumian
Viktor Ambartsumian
Armenian astronomer
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
American astronomer
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astronomer
Kip Thorne
American physicist
Rashid Sunyaev
Russian-German astrophysicist
Vitaly Ginzburg
Russian physicist
Fang Lizhi
Chinese astrophysicist and dissident
Abbot, Charles Greeley
Charles Greeley Abbot
American astrophysicist
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish physicist
Russell Alan Hulse
American physicist
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
Lyman Spitzer
American astrophysicist
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd.
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
American astrophysicist
Strömgren, 1957
Bengt Strömgren
Danish astrophysicist
Roy Kerr
New Zealand mathematician