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Nature 440, 148 (9 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/440148d; Published online 8 March 2006
Giants of physics found white-dwarf mass limits
Eric Blackman1
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
In his Essay "The death of a star" (Nature 438, 1086; 2005) Freeman Dyson pays a well-deserved tribute to astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's lifetime of work. Your readers may be interested to know that Wilhelm Anderson of Tartu University in Estonia and Edmund Stoner of the University of Leeds in England separately published white-dwarf mass limits that predated what has come to be known as the 'Chandrasekhar limit' (S.
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