Professor Ashoke Sen First Indian Awarded Oskar Klein Medal
Professor Ashoke Sen has been awarded the Oskar Klein Medal for 2026, making him the first Indian physicist to receive this prestigious honor. The award recognizes his significant contributions to string theory, black hole entropy, and string field theory, which have influenced modern theoretical physics. Currently, he holds the Infosys-Madhava Chair Professor position at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bengaluru. The Oskar Klein Medal, established in 1988 and awarded annually by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics, honors outstanding achievements in physics and has previously been given to notable figures such as Stephen Hawking and Peter Higgs.
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