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DEEPAK DHAR              

9th March, 2022

 

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Context:

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

 

Details:

  • He becomes the first Indian to win this award, which was initiated in 1975, with Nobel laureate (1982) K.G. Wilson being the first recipient.
  • Dhar, has been chosen for this award for his seminal contributions in the field of statistical physics, including exact solutions of self-organized criticality models, interfacial growth, universal long-time relaxation in disordered magnetic systems, exact solutions in percolation and cluster counting problems and definition of spectral dimension of fractals.

 

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/deepak-dhar-and-john-j-hopfield-chosen-for-the-boltzmann-medal/article65192794.ece