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Born October 19, 1910 • Lahore • Pakistan
Died August 21, 1995 (aged 84) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1984) • Nobel Prize (1983)
Subjects Of Study Chandrasekhar limit • black hole • convection • mass • radiation • star • stellar evolution

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