Sir Roger Bannister (1929-2018)
Sports Illustrated India|April 2018
A legend in his own time, Sir Roger was most proud of his neurology research but his historic sub-four mile run in 1954 is still regarded as one of his best breakthroughs
David Epstein
Sir Roger Bannister (1929-2018)

THERE IS a sort-of joke in physics that Albert Einstein’s Nobel Prize was a makeup award, because he won it for his discovery of the photoelectric effect, a footnote compared to his mind-bending theory of relativity. Sir Roger Bannister, who died on March 3 at the age of 88, was the Einstein of sports.

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Sir Roger Bannister (1929-2018)
Sports Illustrated India

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April 2018
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