Pride and Peeve: India and the Nobel science prizes

Rajesh Kochhar So far four genetic Indians have won the Nobel science prize: Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman (awarded 1930), Hargobind Khorana (1968), Subramanya Chandrasekhar ( 1983), and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009). Of…

Scientist in exile [ Subramanya Chandrasekhar]

Sunday Times of India, 14 July 1991 Rajesh Kochhar [This essay reviews Kameshwar C. Wali’s authorized biography of Subramanya Chandrasekhar, titled Chandra. The review was written when Chandrasekhar was still…

Subramanya Chandrasekhar : A tribute (1999)

The Tribune , Chandigarh, 27 July 1999 INDIA -BORN US ASTROPHYSICIST Chandra observatory: tribute to a legend  Rajesh Kochhar The recent X-ray observatory launched into space by the USA has…