Large addition to papers of Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar now available for research
The Special Collections Research Center’s collection of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar‘s personal papers has more than doubled in size. Organization of the additional material has recently been completed by archivist Allyson Smally, and a new guide to the collection is available online.
The newly-opened portion of the collection contains writings – including handwritten notes and drafts – personal and professional correspondence, and a significant number of photographs. The additional material is described in the Addenda portion of the online guide.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) was a faculty member at the University of Chicago for nearly 60 years. He made significant contributions to theoretical astrophysics, and is best known for his mathematical theory of black holes.
A notebook from Chandrasekhar’s first year at Cambridge University, later dedicated to his wife Lalitha.
Chandra and Lalitha, 1940.
Congratulatory letter from University of Chicago President Hanna Holborn Gray, 1983.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar pictured in 1936.
