Tag: perseverance
Hollow And Rough Surface
Have you ever noticed a golf ball? The ball was not round smooth. There are hollows or small holes on the surface like pockmarks from smallpox on the face. It doesn’t look pretty, huh? In fact, the ugly look has a meaning. Golf balls are made that way because the hollow minimizes the resistance or…
The Reward Of Perseverance
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. In 1947, Dr. Chandrasekhar was asked to teach a follow-up seminar in astrophysics at the University of Chicago. At the time, he was living in Wisconsin conducting research at the Yerkes astronomical observatory. To teach, he had to travel 160 km twice a week including winter, but he accepted…