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by OldGuyInTheClub 986 days ago
Chandrasekhar got a Nobel in 1983 nominally for the white dwarf work he published in 1929. Of course, he did a LOT in between, changing fields every 10 years. There was always chatter that this hurt him due to the committee "not knowing what work to award." His uncle, the experimentalist C.V. Raman, won it a couple of years or so after the experimental results of the effect that bears his name.