Editing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (section)

===Early career===
In 1935, Chandrasekhar was invited by the director of the Harvard Observatory, [[Harlow Shapley]], to be a visiting lecturer in theoretical astrophysics for a three-month period. He travelled to the United States in December. During his visit to Harvard, Chandrasekhar greatly impressed Shapley, but declined his offer of a Harvard research fellowship. At the same time, Chandrasekhar met [[Gerard Kuiper]], a noted Dutch astrophysical observationalist who was then a leading authority on white dwarfs. Kuiper had recently been recruited by [[Otto Struve]], the director of the [[Yerkes Observatory]] in [[Williams Bay, Wisconsin]], which was run by the [[University of Chicago]], and the university's president, [[Robert Maynard Hutchins]]. Having known of Chandrasekhar, Struve was then considering him for one of three faculty posts in astrophysics, along with Kuiper; the other opening had been filled by [[Bengt Stromgren]], a Danish theorist.<ref name="Chandra_bio_INSA"/> Following a recommendation from Kuiper, Struve invited Chandrasekhar to Yerkes in March 1936 and offered him the job. Though Chandrasekhar was keenly interested, he initially declined the offer and left for England; after Hutchins sent a radiogram to Chandrasekhar during the voyage, he finally accepted, returning to Yerkes as an assistant professor of Theoretical Astrophysics in December 1936.<ref name="Chandra_bio_INSA"/> Hutchins also intervened on an occasion where Chandra's participation on teaching a course organised by Struve, was vetoed by the dean [[Henry Gale (astrophysicist)|Henry Gale]] based on a racial prejudice; Hutchins said "By all means have Mr. Chandrasekhar teach".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/4|doi=10.17226/5859|title=Biographical Memoirs|year=1997|isbn=978-0-309-05788-2}}</ref>

Chandrasekhar remained at the University of Chicago for his entire career. He was promoted to associate professor in 1941 and to full professor two years later at the age of 33.<ref name="Chandra_bio_INSA"/> In 1946, when [[Princeton University]] offered Chandrasekhar a position vacated by [[Henry Norris Russell]] with a salary double that of Chicago's, Hutchins incremented his salary matching with that of Princeton's and persuaded Chandrasekhar to stay in Chicago. In 1952, he became the [[Morton D. Hull]] Distinguished Service Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and [[Enrico Fermi Institute]], upon [[Enrico Fermi]]'s invitation. In 1953, he and his wife, Lalitha Chandrasekhar, took American citizenship.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/s-chandrashekhar-indias-great-astrophysicist-why-google-doodle-is-celebrating-the-nobel-prize-winner/899544/ |title=S Chandrashekhar, India's great astrophysicist: Why Google Doodle is celebrating the Nobel prize winner |date=19 October 2017 |work=The Financial Express |access-date=2017-10-19 |language=en-US}}</ref>

After the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research (LASR) was built by NASA in 1966 at the university, Chandrasekhar occupied one of the four corner offices on the second floor.  (The other corners housed [[John Alexander Simpson|John A. Simpson]], [[Peter Meyer (astrophysicist)|Peter Meyer]], and [[Eugene N. Parker]].) Chandrasekhar lived at 4800 Lake Shore Drive after the high-rise apartment complex was built in the late 1960s, and later at 5550 Dorchester Building.