Let's make this birthday one to remember.

81 years old (Born on March 12, 1944)

Happy Birthday, Michael Thorpe! May your day be as flexible and dynamic as the protein structures you've spent a lifetime unraveling. Your groundbreaking insights into rigidity theory have certainly made our understanding of glassy networks less brittle—and far more entertaining!

From condensed matter to molecular dynamics, your contributions continue to resonate through labs worldwide. Here's hoping this birthday brings you plenty of laughter, minimal entropy, and just enough chaos for inspiration. Keep bending boundaries (but not too rigidly), because science wouldn't be nearly as fun without your brilliant mind.

Cheers to another year filled with discoveries—both scientific and humorous!