WMI mourns for Prof. B.S. Chandrasekhar who died on 12th September 2021 at the age of 93. He had been guest professor at WMI since 1988 and contributed to the success of many research projects by his creativity and deep knowledge of physics. We will honor his memory and remember him not only as a great scientist but also as a charming and humorous colleague.

B.S. Chandrasekhar studied physics at the Universities of Mysore and Delhi and received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in 1952. He then became research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1952-54) and visiting scientist at the University of Oxford  (1954-55). In 1955, he joined the Westinghouse Research Labs, where he did his well-known work on the upper critical field of type-II superconductors (Chandrasekhar-Clogston limit, 1962). In 1963, he became professor of physics at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he has also been department chair, dean and vice president. He retired from CWRU in 1988. He also was guest professor at the University of Cambridge (1978), the Tata Institute at Bombay (1980), the ETH Zurich (1980-81) and the WMI (1984-85). After retiring from Case Western Reserve University he joined WMI as a permanent guest researcher in 1988.