The white dwarf affair : Chandrasekhar, Eddington and the limiting mass
A thesis describing and analysing the controversy between Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Arthur Stanley Eddington over the limiting mass of white dwarf stars. The aim of the thesis is to discover why the controversy occurred and to analyse the reasons behind Eddington's rejection of relativisti...
Main Author: | Gooneratne, Sakura |
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University College London (University of London)
2005
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421461 |
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