Chandrasekhar's Stanford Monet Lecture: Memorable Date (July 25, 1994) with Connie on the First Anniversary of Her Passing On       Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) Today is the first anniversary of Connie's passing on to the other shore— during our 26 years of friendship, there were many memorable moments of redwoods hikes. But the finding of Chandrasekhar's book Truth and Beauty and my July 25, 1994 notes of his Monet lecture at Stanford brought back vivid memories of that day. Monet is one of my favorite painters and I wrote an essay on this father of impressionism, how he painted amazing waterlilies when he was blind. Connie thought it was an art lecture and when Chandrasekhar shook her hand, she didn't know he was the 1983 winner of the Physics Nobel Prize for his studies on evolution of stars & black holes. Later I bought Connie a cosmology book with his many discoveries which she loved reading. Chandrasekhar said Monet's Sunrise (1874) started impressionism and his serial paintings of Haystacks, Poplars, & Seine Misty Mornings focused on changing atmospheric effects even though the object remained the same, comparing it to the landscape of relativity. Connie enjoyed this surprising date meeting a Nobel Laureate, saying I had taken her on a flight high up in the sky where she experienced beauty & truth.   — Peter Y. Chou        Mountain View, 9-9-2017        Recounting event of 7-25-1994

Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University July 25, 1994 Lecture by S. Chandrasekhar: "The Series Paintings of Claude Monet & the Landscape of General Relativity" S. Charndrasekhar's book Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (1987) S. Charndrasekhar's autograph on title page of his book (1994)