Current Affairs - Awards and Honours - Discussion

Ashoke Sen is a renowned Indian theoretical physicist who received the Oskar Klein Medal in 2026, becoming the first Indian physicist to receive this prestigious international honour. He is recognised for his pioneering contributions to string theory, particularly S-duality, black-hole entropy counting, and string field theory. Sen serves as the ICTS-Infosys Madhava Chair Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Bengaluru. The Oskar Klein Medal is an annual physics award named after Swedish theoretical physicist Oskar Klein. Established in 1988, it recognises outstanding contributions to physics and is associated with Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.