This #MadrasDay, here's the poster series brought out by @IMScChennai in 2019 on #ChennaiScience. The panels highlight some of #Chennai's traditions in #Science, #Mathematics, #Education and #PublicService, together with the people and institutions that helped to shape them. 1/15

@msswaminathan’s work as a plant geneticist led to the development of new varieties of wheat and rice, fueling India’s #GreenRevolution. He is the founder and chairman of @mssrf in #Chennai. 2/15

Dr. Sarada Menon is a #psychiatrist, social worker, the founder of @SRFmentalhealth and the first woman psychiatrist in India. Dr. Suniti Solomon and her student at the @gmcrgggh, Dr. Sellappan Nirmala ( @yrgcare), tested and confirmed India’s first #AIDS case in 1986. 3/15

C.S. Seshadri, who passed away recently, was among the first students to be inspired by #FatherRacine at #LoyolaCollege. Famous for several fundamental research contributions to the field of #AlgebraicGeometry, he founded the #ChennaiMathematicalInstitute (CMI). 4/15

Romulus Whitaker is a leader in #ConservationEcology and education in the field of Indian #herpetology. He founded the Madras #Snake Park in 1972 and the Madras #Crocodile Bank Trust in 1976. 5/15

The #observatory set up in #Madras by William Petrie in 1786 was among the first western-style observatories outside Europe. Norman #Pogson, working here, made the first observation of #Helium. It also served as a reference point for the #GreatTrigonometricSurvey of #India. 6/15

#Chennai has been a leader in providing quality #AccessibleHealthCare. Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy and Dr. V Shanta are associated with the #AdyarCancerInstitute, founded in 1952. Dr. K. S. Sanjivi founded #VoluntaryHealthServices and Dr S.S. Badrinath started #SankaraNethralaya. 7/15

#GNRamachandran and the #MadrasGroup made world-famous contributions to the fields of #Biophysics and #Biochemistry in the mid 20th century, while #GNRamachandran was at #MadrasUniversity. 8/15

Our own @IMScChennai, set up by Alladi Ramakrishnan in 1962, is an internationally known centre of #research in the fields of #Mathematics, #Physics, #TheoreticalComputerScience and #ComputationalBiology. 9/15

#PresidencyCollege in #Chennai is the only institution in #India to have two #NobelLaureates in science among its alumni, the physicists #CVRaman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, another alumnus, was awarded the #AbelPrize in mathematics in 2007. 10/15

Much of the deepest Indian work on #Geometry in the last seven decades can be traced to the influence of a French Jesuit priest, #FatherRacine, who headed the department of mathematics at #LoyolaCollege, #Chennai, for three decades and inspired a generation of students. 11/15

Iravatham Mahadevan is known for his contributions to the decipherment of the #TamilBrahmi script and for his work on the #IndusValley inscriptions. 12/15

#JanakiAmmal, born in 1897, a leading botanist and geneticist, was one of the first women to earn a doctorate in #Botany in the USA. Her career spanned a number of institutions in different countries. 13/15

. @IMScChennai brought out this series for the 2019 edition of @scisabha: our annual outreach event for the general public. You can download the high-res files here: https://www.imsc.res.in/outreach/ChennaiScience2019/ 14/15

Curated by @MenonBioPhysics, K.N. Raghavan and @fiberboodam with text contributions from @ashrafstweet, @shekar09, @NirujMohan, T. R. Ramadas, R. Ramanujam, Parameswaran Sankaran, D. Surya Ramana 15/15