Chandrasekhar family

Chandrasekhar family
Chandrasekhar family
Current region	South India
Place of origin	Tamil Nadu, India
Members	C. V. Raman; Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; Venkatraman Radhakrishnan; Sivaramakrishna Ramaseshan; Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar; Sivaramakrishna Pancharatnam; V. Shanta; Chidambara Chandrasekaran; Vidya Shankar;
Distinctions	physics; crystallography; meteorology; astronomy; literature; mathematics; demography; biostatistics; medicine; musicology;

The Chandrasekhar family is a distinguished Indian intellectual family, several of whose members achieved eminence, notably in the field of physics. Two members of the family, Sir C. V. Raman and his nephew, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, were Nobel laureates in physics.

For many members of the Chandrasekhar family there are multiple possible spellings in use for names. This includes R. Chandrasekhara Iyer; he was named Chandrasekharan (with an "n") but later became known as Chandrasekhara Aiyar (without the "n").^[1] Furthermore, the family name "Aiyar" is sometimes spelled "Iyer" or "Ayyar".

^ Parameswaran, p. 5. "At the time of Raman's birth, Chandrasekharan, or Chandrasekhara Aiyar as he became to be known, [...]"

[1] Parameswaran, p. 5. "At the time of Raman's birth, Chandrasekharan, or Chandrasekhara Aiyar as he became to be known, [...]"

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