Beyond the limit - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekher

The video is a presentation on the life and career of the astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. He was born in 1910 in Lahore and after pursuing his degree in Physics from the Presidency College in Chennai he was invited to pursue a doctorate at Cambridge University. He published his first paper titled “Compton Scattering and the New Statistic” at the age of eighteen. After completing his degree at Cambridge he left England and joined the University of Chicago where he was to remain for the rest of his life. He pursued many areas of research from stellar structure to the mathematical theory of the Black Hole to the collision of gravitational waves during his life. In 1954 he was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of London and in 1968 the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Vibhushan.The film includes rare interviews with Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.