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White Dwarf Theory

India · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1931

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1931

Cambridge · Science / Physics

Chandrasekhar develops and publishes relativistic models of degenerate stars that establish a limiting mass for white dwarfs.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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