Who among the following was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1983, along with William A Fowler, for key discoveries related to evolutionary stages of massive stars?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and William A. Fowler. Chandrasekhar, an Indian-born astrophysicist working in the USA, was honoured for his studies of how stars are built and how they evolve. He is best known for the Chandrasekhar limit, about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun: a dying star heavier than this cannot settle as a white dwarf and collapses further.