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Who of the following scientists proved that the stars with mass less than 1.44 times the mass of the Sun end up as White Dwarfs when they die ?

  1. Edwin Hubble

  2. S. Chandrashekhar

  3. Stephen Hawking

  4. Steven Weinberg
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Explanation

S. Chandrashekhar (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) calculated the mass limit (1.44 solar masses) for white dwarf formation, now known as the Chandrasekhar Limit. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for this work. Hubble, Hawking, and Weinberg made contributions in other areas of cosmology.

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