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The physicist Eddington publicly mocked — then history proved right
In 1935, 24-year-old Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar showed that white dwarf stars above about 1.44 solar masses can't be held up by electron pressure and must collapse further. At the Royal Astronomical Society, the era's leading astrophysicist Arthur Eddington publicly derided the result, delaying its acceptance for decades. Chandrasekhar was vindicated with the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics.