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Chandrasekhar and the history of astronomy

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814374774_0005Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    Chandrasekhar’s own books, papers, and oral history interviews make clear that he was generally more interested in the present and future of astrophysics than in its past. Nevertheless, late in his life and after his death, historians of science have somewhat entangled him in two supposedly controversial issues, one concerning precursors of his mass limit for degenerate stars and the other his relationship with Eddington. Neither story is an entirely happy one.