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This text chronicles the productive scientific career of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, one of the 20th-century's distinguished astrophysicists. Among Chandrasekhar's discoveries were the critical mass that makes a star too massive to become a white dwarf and the mathematical theory of black holes.

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Contributors: James Binney, John L. Friedman, Norman R. Lebovitz, Donald E. Osterbrock, E. N. Parker, Roger Penrose, A. R. P. Rau, George B. Rybicki, E. E. Salpeter, Bernard F. Schutz, G. Srinivasan.

From White Dwarfs to Black Holes

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/05/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226769974, 978-0226769974
      ISBN10: 0226769976
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      Book Synopsis
      This text chronicles the productive scientific career of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, one of the 20th-century's distinguished astrophysicists. Among Chandrasekhar's discoveries were the critical mass that makes a star too massive to become a white dwarf and the mathematical theory of black holes.

      Table of Contents
      Contributors: James Binney, John L. Friedman, Norman R. Lebovitz, Donald E. Osterbrock, E. N. Parker, Roger Penrose, A. R. P. Rau, George B. Rybicki, E. E. Salpeter, Bernard F. Schutz, G. Srinivasan.

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