Physicist Ashoke Sen First Indian to Receive Oskar Klein Medal
Ashoke Sen, a professor at Bengaluru's International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, has become the first Indian to receive the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal, awarded annually by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics. Recognized for his pioneering work on string theory, including S-duality and black hole entropy, Sen has previously won the Dirac Medal and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. He delivered the 2026 Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture titled 'Gravity from Strings and Strings from Gravity.'
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