Those spaces weren't there before. Probably Kos did it in the dark of night to piss off Maryscott ;-)

Chandrasekhar, at the time I met him in late 1987, had established a long history of going into an area of theoretical physics research, making enormous contributions in that area, and then writing the definitive book on the subject.  The University of Chicago bookstore had a multi-volume hardbound collection of his selected papers that was about 2 feet wide on the bookshelf.  Selected papers, mind you.  What a body of work!  
Arthur Eddington, arrogant schmuck that he was, tried to laugh Chandrasekhar out of physics in the 1930s when Chandra made the famous calculation of the Chandrasekhar limit, the maximum stellar mass at which electron degeneracy pressure could keep a white dwarf from collapsing into something more compact (we would now say a neutron star or a black hole).  Eddington famously said "I think there should be a law of Nature to prevent a star from behaving in this absurd way!"  Because of Eddington's tremendous standing in the English physics community, nobody dared to support Chandrasekhar.  
Of course, that same jerk Eddington, when asked once what he thought of the statement that there were only three people on Earth who truly understood Relativity, responded by asking "OK, who's the third?"
The irony, of course, is that Chandra, whom Eddington tried to discredit, ended up understanding relativity in a much deeper way than Eddington, and making contributions to the field that went way beyond anything Eddington and his enormous ego could not have even dreamed.  And through it all, Chandra remained a very humble man.  I remember a talk he gave in spring of 1988 (if I recall correctly) at the dorm where I lived.  When asked how he got so successful, he said he was just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time on a few occasions, and he said it with such calmness and sincerity that nobody, not even a jerk like Eddington, could have accused him of false modesty.  

In the end, I must admit that I have to thank Eddington, because if he hadn't been such an arrogant prick, I might never have met Chandrasekhar.  Opposed by Eddington, Chandra had no future as a physicist in England, and so was basically forced to go to the University of Chicago, where he stayed for the rest of his career and life (about 58 years, from 1937 to 1995), and where I had the pleasure of meeting him.  

In December of 1987, toward the end of my first quarter in college, I bought a copy of Chandrasekhar's book Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability for myself, and a copy of his popular literature book Truth and Beauty as a Christmas present for my friend Jamie, who had taken an astrophysics course with me at a Harvard summer school program in 1986.  I went to Chandra's office at LASR, the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research, to ask him to sign the two books.  I figured a book signed by the discoverer of the famous Chandrasekhar limit would be a good present for Jamie, and even though it was still well beyond my ability to understand, I knew Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability was a great text and I thought it would be cool to have a signed copy.  That same signed copy is in the room with me in São Paulo as I write this.  
When I went to Chandra's office, I wasn't sure if he'd even be willing to sign my books.  I was thrilled when he not only agreed to sign them, but invited me into his office, sat me down, and talked to me for about 15 minutes about who I was and what I wanted to do.  I ended up going all the way to a Ph.D. in physics, but at that point I was an 18 year old kid overwhelmed by the quality of his peers and scared of the difficulty of the program at the U of C, and therefore very unsure if he would even get as far as a bachelor's degree in physics.  I believe very strongly that those 15 minutes with Chandra made a huge difference in my life.  When one of the greatest physicists in the history of our planet took 15 minutes to talk to me about my interests and ambitions, it made me feel stronger and more important in a way I could never have imagined.  

I don't find Chandra's writing at all boring, but I have to recognize that first, I'm a tremendous nerd, and second, I am hugely biased when it comes to Chandra.  Because of his work, and because of how nice he was to me at a moment when it made a huge difference in my life, I am an unconditional fan of Chandrasekhar, and even though I'm not working in physics these days, I will be forever grateful to him for those 15 minutes in December of 1987.  So, as always, YMMV, but I just wanted to say that I find nothing boring about Chandra, his life story, or his writing.  

Even the hanged corpse of Mussolini is given 200/1.