Prof. Dhar is the first Indian to obtain this high honour in the discipline of statistical physics
Prof. Dhar is the first Indian to obtain this high honour in the discipline of statistical physics
Deepak Dhar, physicist, from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, has been chosen for the Boltzmann medal, awarded by the Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. He turns into the first Indian to win this award, which was initiated in 1975, with Nobel laureate (1982) Okay.G. Wilson being the first recipient. He shares the platform with American scientist John J. Hopfield who is thought for his invention of an associative neural community, now named after him. The award consists of the gilded Boltzmann medal with the inscription of Ludwig Boltzmann, and the chosen two scientists will probably be introduced the medals at the StatPhys28 convention to be held in Tokyo, 7-11 August, 2023.
Prof. Dhar, who was previously at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, has been chosen for this award for his seminal contributions in the discipline of statistical physics, together with actual options of self-organised criticality fashions, interfacial progress, common long-time rest in disordered magnetic methods, actual options in percolation and cluster counting issues and definition of spectral dimension of fractals, in response to the web site of the C3 Commission.
It is noteworthy that the final merchandise, particularly, the definition of the spectral dimension of fractals, pertains to the work he did as a PhD pupil at California Institute of Technology, in the U.S. The award, in impact, marks out his lifetime’s achievement.
A magician
Prof Gautam Menon, who has labored with Prof. Dhar says on Twitter, “He was my post-doctoral mentor at TIFR. I can think of no-one who deserves this more.” He goes on to say that Mark Kac, who pioneered the improvement of mathematical chance and its software to statistical physics, as soon as mentioned, “There are two kinds of geniuses, the ‘ordinary’ and the ‘magicians’. An ordinary genius is the fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better… once we understand what they have done, we feel that we too could have done it. It is different with the magicians. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely mysterious.” Prof Menon says, then, “Deepak is a magician.”
The Statistical Physics neighborhood celebrated the event of Prof Dhar and Prof. Mustansir Barma, who’s at TIFR, Hyderabad centre now, turning 70, not too long ago. The members of this group quantity greater than 100 as we speak, and the contribution of Prof. Dhar and Prof. Barma in build up this neighborhood by nurturing the abilities with colleges and mentorship, has been appreciated and famous by physicists. However, each scientists independently mentioned that they’d not performed this consciously and have been comfortable at the consequence.
Previous winners
The medal, which honours excellent achievements in the discipline of statistical physics, has been given to at least one or two individuals, as soon as in three years, in the final 47 years. Previous winners embrace Okay.G. Wilson, R. Kubo, M.E. Fisher, R.J. Baxter, Kurt Binder, Giorgio Parisi, L. P. Kadanoff and different such names which to be present in the textbooks of statistical physics and lots of whom have later gained the Nobel prize. It is given solely as soon as to an individual and on the situation that that particular person has not gained the Nobel prize thus far.
- Deepak Dhar, physicist, from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, has been chosen for the Boltzmann medal, awarded by the Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
- Prof. Dhar, who was previously at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, has been chosen for this award for his seminal contributions in the discipline of statistical physics
- He shares the platform with American scientist John J. Hopfield who is thought for his invention of an associative neural community, now named after him.
