Editing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (section)

==University of Cambridge==
In his first year at Cambridge, as a research student of Fowler, Chandrasekhar spent his time calculating mean [[opacity (optics)|opacities]] and applying his results to the construction of an improved model for the limiting mass of a degenerate star. At the meetings of the [[Royal Astronomical Society]], he met [[E. A. Milne]]. At the invitation of [[Max Born]] he spent the summer of 1931, his second year of post-graduate studies, at Born's institute at [[Göttingen]], working on opacities, [[Atomic spectral line#Emission and absorption coefficients|atomic absorption coefficients]], and [[model photosphere|model stellar photospheres]]. On the advice of [[Paul Dirac]], he spent his final year of graduate studies at the [[Niels Bohr Institute|Institute for Theoretical Physics]] in [[Copenhagen]], where he met [[Niels Bohr]].

After receiving a bronze medal for his work on degenerate stars, Chandrasekhar was awarded his PhD degree at Cambridge in the summer of 1933, with a thesis on rotating self-gravitating [[polytrope]]s. On 9 October, he was elected to a Prize Fellowship at Trinity College for the period 1933–1937, becoming only the second Indian to receive a Trinity Fellowship after [[Srinivasa Ramanujan]] 16 years earlier. He had been so certain of failing to obtain the fellowship that he had already made arrangements to study under Milne that autumn at Oxford, even going to the extent of renting a flat there.<ref name="Chandra_bio_INSA"/>

During this time, Chandrasekhar became acquainted with British physicist Sir [[Arthur Eddington]]. Eddington took an interest in his work, but in January, 1935, gave a talk severely criticizing Chandrasekhar's work (see [[#Dispute with Eddington]] and [[Chandrasekhar–Eddington dispute]]).