October 18 was the birth centenary of the Physics Nobel Prize winner for 1983 S Chandrasekhar. The astrophysicist has come to be known for the Chandrasekhar limit, which concerns a class of stars called white dwarfs. The ...
CHEMISTRY NOBELS In the International Year
of Chemistry, C Sivaram charts the Nobel
prize winning achievements in the field, from
work on synthesis of sugars to vitamin
chemistry.