"Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, %u2013 August 21, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, United States)[2] was an American astrophysicist born in British India of Tamil Indian heritage.[3] He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics (shared with William Alfred Fowler) for his theoretical work on the structure and evolution of stars."...source wikipedia....oops S Chandrashekhar was born in Lahore and was an American astrophysicist..but of Tamil origin..nice and he won a nobel in 1983...what happened to nobel producing tamils after that....I think Rajni started acting and they all became his fans with no quest for another nobel...nd yes..out of professionalism they joined engineering colleges too..'coz they felt its a "big" deal....