Srinivasa Ramanujan
1887 – 1920 · India · Mathematics
Self-taught genius whose notebooks still yield theorems a century later.
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- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1910 – 1995 · Astronomy, Physics
Ramanujan's example made a mathematical career in India imaginable to Chandrasekhar's generation.
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