The life of Prof. Gopalasamudram Narayana Iyer Ramachandran (more popularly known as GNR among his colleagues and
students), one of the greatest and yet least sung savants of science in India, is as inspiring as it is melancholic.
Today is his birth centenary.

(1/n) From the groundbreaking research on the structure of collagen & on peptide conformations undertaken at the Madras University, to founding and nurturing the Molecular Biophysics Unit (@MBU_IISc) at @iiscbangalore,...

(image source: subhankar-biswas, deviantart.com)
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Dreadnoughtus!!! 🦕

I like sauropods (long-necked dinosaurs) in general, as these Mesozoic puzzles 🧩 pushed evolutionary innovation to the extreme, & even the simplest aspects of their biology are confounding, oft-debated subjects. A thread 🧵 highlighting few of those.

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https://twitter.com/23luvr/status/1575600974458064897

Dreadnoughtus schrani was discovered (2014) in southern Patagonia, Argentina 🇦🇷 and is thought to be the largest 🏆 terrestrial animal to have ever walked the planet (i.e., it possesses the greatest mass of any land animal that can be calculated 🧮 with...

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Rather a micro-🧵 with some related and interesting facts: 😏

1. On his way to visit his elder brother Satyendranath (posted as the district judge of Karwar) in 1882, a 22-year-old Rabindranath spotted the pristine Karwar beach 🏖️🌅, located at the confluence...

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https://twitter.com/aritrac1312/status/1576585157938941952

...of the Kali river and the Arabian sea. The natural beauty of the tranquil beach roused the philosopher in him, and he penned his first verse drama 'Prakritir Pratisodh' / 'প্রকৃতির প্রতিশোধ' (meaning "the Revenge of Nature") drawing literary inspiration...

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