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Empire of the stars
obsession, friendship, and betrayal in the quest for black holes
By Miller, Arthur
- ISBN
- 978-0-61834-151-1
- Publisher
- Boston ; Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2005
Miller (history and philosophy of science, University Coll., London; Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc ) has painted a wonderful canvas of the culture of science during the first half of the 20th century. The main characters are Subrahmanyan "Chandra" Chandrasekhar, a brilliant graduate student from India who developed what later would be recognized as the mathematical description of blac...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
