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Eddington rejected Chandrasekhar's conclusion that too-massive white dwarfs would collapse under their own gravity, and his influence delayed the acceptance of Chandrasekhar's work by some years. This is, I'd say, a far better example of a cult of personality holding back scientific progress than any of the events that Becker makes much hay of. Why not include it in your book about the flaws of physics?
Well (you can tell where this is going) Bohr was on Chandrasekhar's side.