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“In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.”

Quote by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian-American astrophysicist and physicist renowned for his research on stellar evolution and black hole theory. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1937 and became one of the youngest recipients of the award. more

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