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Meghnad Saha
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Ashoken Sen
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Deepak Dhar
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Piara Gill
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. He shares the platform with American scientist John J.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -It was initiated in 1975, with Nobel laureate (1982) K.G. Wilson being the first recipient.
Detailed explanation-4: -Prof Dhar was born in 1951 and completed his graduation in Science in 1970 from the University of Allahabad, then Masters’s in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1972.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.