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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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