Elon Musk Son Shivon Zillis has a middle name Chandrashekar. Informed by Rajeev Chandrasekhar – Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology of India.
Naming his son after the Nobel physicist Prof S. Chandrasekhar shows Elon Musk’s admiration for great scientific minds. Elon Musk Owner of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company and X (twitter), is known to be the most dynamic business man across the world. With his adventures in business and his out of the world business ideas, he has surprised the world time and again.
Minister of IT met Elon in #AISafetySummit at Bletchley Park, UK and had a informal discussion during which he got to know about this. He shared the same on X (Twitter) and Indians are feeling proud about the same. It is to be noted that Indians know too less about their own people who have achieved on the world stage.Â
A new discussion about including the names of the Indian achievers in the curriculum is bound to be started on Social media with this information.
Who was S. Chandrashekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar known as S. Chandrashekar (1910 – 1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist. He spent his professional life mostly in the United States. He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1983 for Physics that he shared with William A. Fowler for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars. Chandrasekhar studied at Presidency College, Madras (now Chennai) and the University of Cambridge and served as a long-time professor at the University of Chicago.
Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore present Pakistan on 19 October 1910 in a Tamil Brahmin family, studied in Chennai in earlier days and then moved to the US. Nobel laureate Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman known as Dr. C.V. Raman was his paternal uncle.