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← Math! Science! History!3 sep · 12 min

REPOST The Resilience of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

REPOST The Resilience of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar3 sep12 min

In this episode of Math, Science, History, host Gabrielle Birchak does a repost about Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a 19-year-old prodigy whose curiosity during a two-week sea voyage in 1930 led to a groundbreaking discovery. While sailing from India to England, Chandrasekhar, armed only with a notebook and the vast expanse of the ocean, began questioning the fate of stars after they exhausted their fuel.

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