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Description	en:Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in his later years
Source	http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/chandra.html
Date
Author	University of Chicago (Copyright holder)
Permission (Reusing this image)	See below.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar died on August 21, 1995. This image is the closest to being open, other images being copyrighted by AP, or are under more restrictive license. This image is released as a low resolution form of an image, copyrighted by University of Chicago, allowed to be printed and distributed through Chandra.harvard.edu website. It is impossible to replace this image by a public domain image unless the copyright expires or some image depicting Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is released under open license/public domain.

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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Description	This image is being used to illustrate the article of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and is used for informational or educational purposes only.
Source	Found at http://chandra.harvard.edu/about/chandra.html. This image is released as a low resolution form of an image, copyrighted by University of Chicago, allowed to be printed and distributed through Chandra.harvard.edu website. Its use in Wikipedia is therefore claimed under the Fair use guidelines.
Article	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Portion used	Entire Picture
Low resolution?	Is low and only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the person described in the article, not enough to be used for piracy.
Purpose of use	Illustrates the subject of the article Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Replaceable?	No free equivalent is available. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar died on August 21, 1995. This image is the closest to being open, other images being copyrighted by AP, or are under more restrictive license. It is impossible to replace this image by a public domain image unless the copyright expires or some image depicting Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar is released under open license/public domain.
Other information	Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the person so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves.