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In which institution did Chandrasekhar conduct some of his studies?
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Chandrasekhar worked at Yerkes Observatory as a research associate in 1936. While there, he published two papers on the Chandrasekhar limit. The limit is the maximum mass that a white dwarf can have before it collapses into a neutron star or black hole. Chandrasekhar's work at Yerkes Observatory was instrumental in his development of Theory of stellar evolution.
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