Nobel Prize Recipient. He received world-wide acclaim after being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. He shared the coveted award with Dr. William Alfred Fowler of the California Institute of Technology. According to the Nobel Prize committee, he received the award "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars" and Fowler "for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe." Born in what was British India, he was the first son of ten children. He was educated at home by his parents and tutors before high school. After earning with honors his Bachelor's in Science in 1930 from Presidency College, he was awarded a Government of India scholarship for graduate studies in Cambridge, England. He studied at Trinity College and Institute för Teoretisk Fysik in Copenhagen, Denmark. After earning his Ph.D. degree at Cambridge in 1933, he was elected to a Prize Fellowship at Trinity College for the period 1933 to 1937. While on a visit to the United States at Harvard University, he was offered a position as a Research Associate at the University of Chicago, joining the university in January of 1937 and remaining the rest of his career. During this time, he published, along with numerous scientific papers, at least six textbooks including "An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure" in 1939 and "The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes" in 1983. As an astrophysics professor at the Physics Department of the University of Chicago, he was editor of "The Astrophysical Journal" from 1952 to 1971. He was among the first scientists to combine the study of physics with astronomy, and showed through his studies that there is an upper limit to the mass of white dwarf stars. This limit, known as Chandrasekhar limit, showed that stars more massive than our sun can explode or form black holes at the end of their evolution. He also developed theories about the stellar atmospheres and the mass of stars. He became known throughout the world simply as Dr. Chandra. In his honor was dedicated the Chandra X-ray Observatory in orbit around the earth since 1999. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1953. Besides the Nobel Prize, he received numerous awards and honors including being elected a fellow to the Royal Society in 1944, Copley Medal from the Royal Society in 1984, and Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957. He was the nephew of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics recipient, C.V. Raman. He died from a myocardial infarction. Although international obituaries state he was buried in Chicago without naming a cemetery, an interview with AIP Publishing states he was cremated. A marker was not found in Wheeling Township Arlington Heights Cemetery.