Which year did Chandrasekhar win his Nobel Prize for Physics?
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1983
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his work on stellar structure and stellar evolution. He is best known for his work on white dwarfs, which are extremely dense stars that have collapsed under their own gravity. Chandrasekhar's work on white dwarfs helped to explain how stars evolve and die, and it also had important implications for the study of black holes.
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