Editing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (section)

==Early life and education==
Subrahmanyan was born in [[Lahore]] on 19 October 1910 of the [[British Raj]] (present-day [[Pakistan]]) in a [[Tamils|Tamil]] family,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/who-is-subrahmanyan-chandrasekhar-nobel-prize-winner-physics-4897568/|title=Who was S Chandrasekhar?|date=19 October 2017|website=The Indian Express|language=en|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> to Sita Balakrishnan (1891–1931) and Chandrasekhara Subrahmanya Ayyar (1885–1960)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1983/chandrasekhar/biographical/|title=Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Biographical |website=NobelPrize.org|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-24}}</ref> who was stationed in Lahore as Deputy Auditor General of the [[North Western Railway zone|Northwestern Railways]] at the time of Chandrasekhar's birth. He had two elder sisters, Rajalakshmi and Balaparvathi, three younger brothers, Vishwanathan, Balakrishnan, and Ramanathan, and four younger sisters, Sarada, Vidya, Savitri, and Sundari. His paternal uncle was the Indian physicist and Nobel laureate [[Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman]]. His mother was devoted to intellectual pursuits, had translated [[Henrik Ibsen]]'s ''[[A Doll's House]]'' into [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and is credited with arousing Chandra's intellectual curiosity at an early age.<ref name="www.aljazeera.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/chandrasekhar-google-honours-171018135910958.html|title=S Chandrasekhar: Why Google honours him|website=www.aljazeera.com|access-date=2017-10-18}}</ref> The family moved from Lahore to [[Allahabad]] in 1916, and finally settled in [[Madras]] in 1918.

Chandrasekhar was tutored at home until the age of 12.<ref name="www.aljazeera.com" /> In middle school his father taught him [[mathematics]] and [[physics]] and his mother taught him [[Tamil language|Tamil]]. He later attended the [[The Hindu Higher Secondary School|Hindu High School]], [[Triplicane]], [[Chennai|Madras]] during the years 1922–25. Subsequently, he studied at [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College, Madras]] (affiliated to the [[University of Madras]]) from 1925 to 1930, writing his first paper, "The [[Compton scattering|Compton Scattering]] and the [[Fermi–Dirac statistics|New Statistics]]", in 1929 after being inspired by a lecture by [[Arnold Sommerfeld]].<ref name="Chandra_bio_INSA">{{Cite journal | last1 = Trehan | first1 = Surindar Kumar | url =http://insaindia.res.in/BM/BM23_0207.pdf  | title = Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1910–1995 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy| volume = 23 | pages = 101–119 | year = 1995 }}</ref> He obtained his bachelor's degree, BSc (Hon.), in physics, in June 1930. In July 1930, Chandrasekhar was awarded a Government of India scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the [[University of Cambridge]], where he was admitted to [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], secured by [[Ralph H. Fowler|R. H. Fowler]] with whom he communicated his first paper. During his travels to [[England]], Chandrasekhar spent his time working out the [[statistical mechanics]] of the [[Degenerate matter#Degenerate gases|degenerate electron gas]] in [[white dwarf]] stars, providing [[special relativity|relativistic]] corrections to Fowler's previous work (see [[#Legacy|Legacy]] below).