The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains.

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Indian-American astrophysicist born in 1910 who established the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars. Won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical work on stellar structure and evolution.
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