Ash Jogalekar
curiouswavefn
Born #OTD 1910: The great astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ("Chandra") who discovered a mass limit for white dwarfs, paving the way to neutron stars and black holes. Chandra's
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Thread: We got to discuss the very thought-provoking "Grand Inquisitor" chapter from "The Brothers Karamazov" in my reading group of four last week and had a rather heated debate about
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Born #OTD 1858: Max Planck, the accidental and unwitting founder of quantum mechanics. In 1900, Planck made a revolutionary break with classical physics when, in an "act of despair", he
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I’m thinking of Lynn Margulis today, a brilliant pugnacious scientist who made one of the most important discoveries in biology, endosymbiosis, but did not receive her due. She also lived
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