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Boltzmann medal
Part of: Prelims
Context: Mr. Deepak Dhar, physicist, from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, has been selected for the Boltzmann medal.
- He is the first Indian to win this award.
- He shares the award with American scientist John J. Hopfield who is known for his invention of an associative neural network, now named after him.
- Prof. Dhar has been chosen for this award for his seminal contributions in the field of statistical physics.
Boltzmann medal
- It is awarded by the Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
- It was initiated in 1975, with Nobel laureate (1982) K.G. Wilson being the first recipient.
- The medal honours outstanding achievements in the field of statistical physics.
- It has been given to one or two persons, once in three years, in the last 47 years.
- It is given only once to a person and on the condition that that person has not won the Nobel prize so far.
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