Elon Musk’s son named after S Chandrasekhar, Union IT minister discovers at UK AI Summit; know who that is
While attending the AI Safety Summit in the UK as India's representative, Union IT Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar unexpectedly encountered Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The series of surprises did not stop there as the IT minister struck up a conversation with the billionaire and found out that Musk's son's middle name was the same as his last name - Chandrasekhar. The Union minister shared this strange coincidence online in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Posting on Musk's social media platform X, the Minister of State for Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Electronics, and Technology posted that the tech billionaire shared that his son with tech venture capitalist Shivon Zilis has the middle name “Chandrasekhar”, after Nobel laureate Professor Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Chandrasekhar said on X, while tweeting a photo with Musk, "Look who i bumped into at #AISafetySummit at Bletchley Park, UK. @elonmusk shared that his son with @shivon has a middle name "Chandrasekhar" - named after 1983 Nobel physicist Prof S Chandrasekhar".
The Indian astrophysicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
"Haha, yes, that's true. We call him Sekhar for short, but the name was chosen in honour of our children's heritage and the amazing Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,” responded Zilis to Chandrasekhar's post.
The nobelprice.org has this description:
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1983
Born: 19 October 1910, Lahore, India (now Pakistan)
Died: 21 August 1995, Chicago, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Prize motivation: “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of
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