Union Minister State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar recently revealed that a son of Elon Musk has a middle name with an Indian connection
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, in a post on X, wrote that Strider, who is the son of Elon Musk and Shivon Zilis has a middle name Chandrasekhar
This Indian name has been given by the couple to their son in memory of 1983 Nobel physicist Prof S Chandrasekhar
Rajeev Chandrasekhar had been attending a technical conference named AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in UK
During one of the events of the conference, he met Musk who revealed how he had named his son in memory of a great Indian scientist
“Look who i bumped into at #AISafetySummitat Bletchley Park, UK. @elonmusk shared that his son with @shivon has a middle name "Chandrasekhar" - named after 1983 Nobel physicist Prof S Chandrasekhar,” he wrote
Prof Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for “theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars"
Meanwhile, Zilis, the mother of Strider, who is a Canadian venture capitalist who works in the technology and artificial intelligence fields, commented on Chandrasekhar’s post and confirmed his revelation as true
“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,” she wrote
Musk and Zilis welcomed twins- a daughter and a son- on November 2021