17/04/2026
There, he made a quiet, monumental choice: he would not spend his life fighting bitter, public battles over his ego. He would simply let the universe prove him right.
He threw himself into a life of profound, monk-like dedication to science and teaching. His commitment was legendary. In the 1940s, he insisted on driving 150 miles every single week from the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin to the Chicago campus, often through treacherous blizzards, to teach a class that had only two students.
History rarely announces its greatest moments. Sometimes, it does not happen in state-of-the-art laboratories or grand university halls. Sometimes, the
