This is supremely sad and an irreplaceable loss for Indian science.
The breadth of research work by Prof. Padmanabhan is stuff for the legends. Up there with the greatest!
I first met Paddy (as he was fondly called) over a decade ago at the Perimeter Institute.
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Shocked to hear of the passing of Professor Thanu Padmanabhan @IUCAApune. His research linking general relativity and thermodynamics in new ways, and in other areas, has been widely recognized. Scholar, communicator, extraordinary scientist, friend to many. He will be much missed