Ratih Damayanti: Inspired by Wood Anatomy
Smitten with the anatomy of plants since her college days, Ratih Damayanti invented an automatic wood identification tool. One app to identify hundreds of varieties.
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Edition : 21 May 2019
Ratih Damayanti: Inspired by Wood Anatomy/TEMPO/M Taufan Rengganis
Ratih Damayanti still keeps four exam sheets, bearing a stamp from the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and number 97. Those papers from 19 years ago are a memento of when she got the highest score for the wood anatomy course exam. She answered all essay questions given by I Ketut Nuridja Pandit, now a professor of wood anatomy at the same university.
The sheets of paper are full of handwritings and drawings. “It was as if I was i
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