Talk:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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This article was externally reviewed on December 14, 2005 by Nature. No significant errors or major omissions were found.

Well, it doesn't seem very complete to me. It does not properly mention his physics. Thue | talk 15:08, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

I may add, that Chandrashekhar was not born in Lahore, pakistan, but rather, Lahore, Punjab, British India.

Hmm... It seems that the first paragraph and the 2nd paragraph contridicts itself. "...and a brother of the Nobel physicist CV Raman." and "Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Nobel-prize winning physicist C. V. Raman." Fyu 22:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Fixing per [C. V. Raman] who is identified as his uncle.Trapolator 04:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Nature vs. Encyclopedia Britanica controversy 2 Please improve diction and clarity 3 Edit by the bellsouth.net anon 4 Was going to mention

[edit] Nature vs. Encyclopedia Britanica controversy

In their response to the controversial Nature study, EB people told that first edition of Principles of Stellar Structure was form 1942 and not 1943 as the referee mentioned. This information is not present in the current version of the English WP article. For those who would like to know about the date discrepancy, a first edition publihed by University of Chicago Press is from 1942 (as EB tells), but the enlarged one, published by Dover Publications, which as been reedited in 1960, dates from 1943. It is significantly longer than the first edition (313 pages instead of 251). My database mentions the following comment:

An unabridged and unaltered republication of Principles of stellar dynamics as originally published in 1942 ... [Additional] articles [published in 1943] are also included and are unabridged and unaltered.

So basically, the book as we know it today is from 1943, but the first (20% shorter) version of it is from 1942, as EB says. So depending on whether one has in mind the first edition of the book as we know it today (1943) or the first edition of the book which has this title (1942), EB is or is not right. Alain Riazuelo 13:51, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Please improve diction and clarity

Someone added some useful information about Chrandra's family, but I think the bulk of the article should be about his scientific work, e.g. neutron stars, black holes and colliding plane waves, and his ambitious translation of the Principia. Is it just me, or has the English diction of this article become somewhat strained? In any case, I think some sentences can be clarified, e.g. the sentence He was one of the more distinguished of the ten children of CS Iyer who was an ICS (member of the Indian Civil Service, topmost government service cadre of pre-Independence India), a Carnatic music violinist from the Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu who authored several authentic books on South Indian musicology is confusing. ---CH 21:36, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit by the bellsouth.net anon

Someone using the IP address 205.152.9.38 (registered to BellSouth.net Inc. of Atlanta, GA; also geolocated in Atlanta) added the claim Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar also collaborated with Albert Einstein.

Bellsouth.net anon: this claim is too vague to be useful; do you mean Chandrasekhar and Einstein coauthored a paper? Could be, but if so, what is the citation? If not, just what did you mean? Also, you stuck in this bit of (mis?)-information in an awkward manner. Please give the citation and try again if you can tell us how to verify your claim. TIA ---CH 21:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Was going to mention

An Introduction to the Study of Stellar Structure myself, if only to wonder why it seems not to be in the article; its Dover Publications edition was my own introduction to the author's name if not to his work... Schissel | Sound the Note! 15:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)