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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Professor Deepak Dhar has become which Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal?

A	Third
B	First
C	Second
D	Fourth

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Recently, the prestigious Boltzmann Medal for the year 2022 has been awarded to Professor Deepak Dhar. He became the first Indian to win this award and shared the award with American scientist John Hopfield.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dhar has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2023. Dhar is a winner of the TWAS prize and also an elected fellow of The World Academy of Sciences.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Boltzmann Medal (or Boltzmann Award) is a prize awarded to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics; it is named after the celebrated physicist Ludwig Boltzmann.

Detailed explanation-4: -Deepak Dhar, physicist, from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, has been selected for the Boltzmann medal, awarded by the Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

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