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Elon Musk's son named after Indian American scientist
He shares the son with Indian-origin Shivon Zilis
Elon Musk revealed that his son, whom he shares with Shivon Zilis has the middle name 'Chandrasekhar’, named after the 1983 Nobel-prize winning physicist Subramanyan Chandrasekhar.
The billionaire revealed the connection during his meeting with India's Minister of State (MoS) for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, at the recently held AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, UK. Sharing the news on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Minister wrote, "Look who I bumped into at #AISafetySummit at Bletchley Park, UK."
Confirming the news, Zilis, a Canadian venture capitalist specializing in technology and artificial intelligence (AI) responded to the Minister’s post; she wrote, "We call him Sekhar for short, but the name was chosen in honor of our children's heritage and the amazing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar." Zilis was born to a Punjabi Indian mother and a canadian father.
Indian American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore (pre-Independent India). He joined the staff of the University of Chicago in the 1930s and was named the Morton D. Hull distinguished service professor of astrophysics in 1952, a year after which he became a U.S. citizen.
Chandrasekhar shared the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A Fowler for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. He demonstrated that a white dwarf star, which relies only on a degenerate gas of electrons for support, cannot be stable if its mass is greater than 1.44 times that of the Sun. That limiting value is known as the Chandrasekhar limit in Astronomy.
Haha, yes, that’s true. We call him Sekhar for short, but the name was chosen in honor of our children’s heritage and the amazing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
— Shivon Zilis (@shivon) November 2, 2023
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