S Chandrasekhar: Why Google honours him today – Al Jazeera English

It took over 30 years for the world to recognise Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s discoveries.
Described as a “child prodigy” and hailed as the first astrophysicist to win the Nobel Prize for a theory on the evolution of stars, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar would have been 107 on Diwali this Thursday.
In his honour, Google is changing its logo in 28 countries to a doodle, or illustration, of him and the Chandrasekhar Limit.
But in his lifetime, the Indian American astrophysicist was not always recognised for his achievements. This is his story:

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