The death of a star

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Subramanya Chandrasekhar who expired in 1995, is the first person to calculate the possible final states of stars that have used up their supplies of energy. In his eighth decade, his first great discovery, the Chandrasekhar limit, is recognized with the award of a belated Nobel Prize and his last book Truth and Beauty is a collection of meditations about the place of beauty in science, including a critical comparison of Newton with Shakespeare and Beethoven.

India, Astronomers, Obituary, Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan

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Dynamic universe

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Fritz Zwicky (1898-1973), a Swiss physicist trained as an X-ray crystallographer used his 18-inch Schmidt camera to see rare, violent and short-lived events in the Universe. Through his camera he discovered 20 supernovae that allow him to classify them into several types and infer their different modes of origin and dark matter that allowed him to study the motions of individual galaxies in rich clusters of galaxies.

Switzerland, Science & research, Research, Portrayals, Zwicky, Fritz

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A meeting with Enrico Fermi

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An interview with an intuitive physicist named Enrico Fermi and his life story is discussed. He used to combine theory with experiments.

Management dynamics, Physics, Methods, Practice, Appreciation, Interview, Fermi, Enrico

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