Ash Jogalekar
Scientist, historian, reader, writer, collector of vintage books. Views my own.
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1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to...
Thread: Oppenheimer was central to the Manhattan Projectβs success and was a phenomenal and inspiring leader, but no one man could have made it work and itβs important to remember...
1/n: One way to think about indigenous "science" is that indigenous societies were often very good at technology (eg. the Aleut Baidarka) but because they lacked a good scientific...
Born #OTD 1931: Roger Penrose, one of the leading mathematical physicists, geometers and cosmologists of the 20th century. With Hawking he developed singularity theorems, and inven...
Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD 1910. Perhaps the greatest mathematical astrophysicist of the 20th century, Chandra as he...