Transcript: The theory of white dwarfs was first worked out by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. Born in India, Chandra, as he was universally known, began thinking about white dwarfs on a long boat voyage to college in England. He experienced prejudice many times in his life, but nothing was more hurtful to him than the scorn that senior astronomers poured on his idea of how white dwarfs worked. But he persevered, and he was proved correct. He was a brilliant theorist, the father to a whole generation of astrophysicists, and the editor of the most premier journal in astronomy for decades. In 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.