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When Niels Bohr came to Mylapore

[caption id="attachment_4370" align="alignnone" width="300"] Bohr in Mylapore: courtesy Alladi Krishnasami[/caption] In the summer of 1958, Alladi Ramakrishnan returned to his elegant bungalow, Ekamra Nivas, in Madras after an unpaid sabbatical in the United States. The young Reader from the University of Madras had spent a...

The Ramachandran Plot

The double helix is, perhaps, one of the most iconic structures from the world of science. In Chennai, not far from the banks of river Adyar, there’s an auditorium in the heart of a national research centre that appears wholly unremarkable, but for its name:...