Ep 07 : Two Chandrasekhars and their students

I discuss the legacy of two important individuals Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar and their students. I highlight their styles of doing research and how they inspired important schools of thought. I emphasize the role of economic privilege and gender. I discuss Bimala Buti and mention about interesting books on women in science : Lilavatis Daughters and Lab Hopping. References : 1.     “Bimla Buti.” In Wikipedia, February 8, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bimla_Buti&oldid=1138208481. 2.     “Chandrasekhar and His Limit - Google Books.” Accessed June 14, 2023. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Chandrasekhar_and_His_Limit/HNSdDFOJ4wkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP1&printsec=frontcover. 3.     Chandrasekhar, S. Liquid Crystals. Cambridge University Press, 1992. 4.     Cladis, Patricia E., Banahalli R. Ratna, and Ranganathan Shashidar. “S. Chandrasekhar (1930–2004): Discotic Liquid Crystals.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 43, no. 26 (2004): 3360–3360. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200460918. 5.     Dunmur, David, and Tim Sluckin. Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals. Oxford University Press, 2014. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Soap_Science_and_Flat_Screen_TVs/2iSQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover. 6.     Goodby, John W. “Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar (1930–2004).” Nature 428, no. 6986 (April 2004): 906–906. https://doi.org/10.1038/428906a. 7.     Gray, G. W., G. R. Luckhurst, and E. P. Raynes. “Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar. 6 August 1930 — 8 March 2004: Elected FRS 1983.” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 53 (January 2007): 127–41. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2007.0015. 8.     “Kameshwar C. Wali.” In Wikipedia, May 16, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kameshwar_C._Wali&oldid=1155091599. 9.     Kumar, G. V. Pavan. “Raman’s Nephews.” Scatterings (blog), February 27, 2020. https://backscattering.blog/2020/02/28/ramans-nephews/. 10.  “Lilavatis Daughters | Women in Science | Initiatives | Indian Academy of Sciences.” Accessed June 17, 2023. https://www.ias.ac.in/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/Lilavatis_Daughters. 11.  Penguin Random House India. “Lab Hopping.” Accessed June 17, 2023. https://penguin.co.in/book/lab-hopping/. 12.  “Prof. G S Ranganath.” Accessed June 14, 2023. https://wwws.rri.res.in/htmls/library/imprints_collection/album/Prof.%20G%20S%20Ranganath/index.html#. 13.  “Prof. G. Srinivasan | Imprints Collection | Raman Research Institute.” Accessed June 14, 2023. https://wwws.rri.res.in/htmls/library/imprints_collection/bios/srinivasan.html. 14.  “Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar.” In Wikipedia, February 8, 2023. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sivaramakrishna_Chandrasekhar&oldid=1138214704. 15.  “The Women Scientists of India | Women in Science | Initiatives | Indian Academy of Sciences.” Accessed June 17, 2023. https://www.ias.ac.in/Initiatives/Women_in_Science/The_Women_Scientists_of_India. 16.  Wali, Kameshwar C. A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S Chandrasekhar (With Commentary)(In 2 Volumes). IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1142/p175. 17.  Wali, Kameshwar C. Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar. Centennial Publications of the University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3774392.html. 18.  Wali, Kameshwar C. S Chandrasekhar: The Man Behind the Legend. PUBLISHED BY IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS AND DISTRIBUTED BY WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO., 1997. https://doi.org/10.1142/p030.