![CHANDRASEKHAR, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995). Autograph manuscript signed ("S. Chandrasekhar"), the first 8 pages of his lecture "Of Some Famous Men," [Chicago, 1976]. 8 pages, 4o, lined paper, three-hole punched along left margin, with a typed letter signed to Karl-Heinz Fleitmann, Chicago, 1978, forwarding the manuscript. Cloth folding case.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2002/NYR/2002_NYR_01174_0053_000(050402).jpg?w=1)
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CHANDRASEKHAR, Subrahmanyan (1910-1995). Autograph manuscript signed ("S. Chandrasekhar"), the first 8 pages of his lecture "Of Some Famous Men," [Chicago, 1976]. 8 pages, 4o, lined paper, three-hole punched along left margin, with a typed letter signed to Karl-Heinz Fleitmann, Chicago, 1978, forwarding the manuscript . Cloth folding case.
A very fine manuscript of the first eight pages of Nobel Prize winner Subramanyan Chandrasekhar's "Of Some Famous Men." The lecture is based on his vivid personal recollections of some of the 20th century's most notable physicists. Chandrasekar himself won the Nobel Prize in 1983 with W.A. Fowler for studies of the physical importance of the structure and evolution of stars. The eight pages contain parts I-III of Chandrasekhar's lecture-part I dealing with Eddington's role in establishing Einstein's reputation in England in the early 1930s, and comparing Einstein's reputation to Rutherford's; parts II and III containing Eddington's account, as told to Chandrasekhar, of the events leading up to the British eclipse expeditions of 1919, at which observations were made confirming Einstein's 1915 prediction of the bending of light by massive bodies due to the curvature of space-time in their vicinity. Chandrasekhar has included a wealth of fascinating personal, historical and scientific details about these famous men and events. The paper was published in the Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1976.
A very fine manuscript of the first eight pages of Nobel Prize winner Subramanyan Chandrasekhar's "Of Some Famous Men." The lecture is based on his vivid personal recollections of some of the 20th century's most notable physicists. Chandrasekar himself won the Nobel Prize in 1983 with W.A. Fowler for studies of the physical importance of the structure and evolution of stars. The eight pages contain parts I-III of Chandrasekhar's lecture-part I dealing with Eddington's role in establishing Einstein's reputation in England in the early 1930s, and comparing Einstein's reputation to Rutherford's; parts II and III containing Eddington's account, as told to Chandrasekhar, of the events leading up to the British eclipse expeditions of 1919, at which observations were made confirming Einstein's 1915 prediction of the bending of light by massive bodies due to the curvature of space-time in their vicinity. Chandrasekhar has included a wealth of fascinating personal, historical and scientific details about these famous men and events. The paper was published in the Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1976.