The Chandrasekhar limit was named after an astrophysicist who had an uncle names Sir C. V. Raman, which is also a novel laureate.
The Chandrasekhar family is an Indian intellectual family. 
 Two members of the family, Sir C. V. Raman and his nephew, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, were Nobel laureates in physics. 
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS (Tamil:   ; ; 19 October 1910  21 August 1995), was an Indian American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". 
 The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him. 
