Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Ru-s049. Caption in biro on a label stuck on the photograph. SS Pilsna, part of the Lloyd Tresino fleet. In 1930, aged 19, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, while on his way to study in Cambridge, made a calculation on board the SS Pilsna, that rocked the astrophysics community: the Chandrasekhar limit.

Caption on photograph

PILSNA - TOO LATE

Estimated Date

1920-1930

Tags

• ship
• travel
• steamship
• steamer
• Ruxton
• Chandra

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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