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Which Indian scientist, along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, proposed the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars?
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Vikram Sarabhai
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- Vikram Sarabhai
- Homi J. Bhabha
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian-American astrophysicist, won the Nobel Prize for his work on the structure and evolution of stars, including the calculation of the Chandrasekhar limit.
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