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The Rocket Media has a wonderful interview with Prof. Ashoke Sen. youtu.be/gIsha5uQzoA?si=_dsD…
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Today is International Snow Leopard Day. India is home to 15% of the World's Snow Leopards, the 3rd highest in the world, also the state animal of Ladakh ⚪️🐆🏔️🇮🇳
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Meet Ashoke Sen,
a Bengali-medium schoolboy from Kolkata who applied to only two American PhD programs because those two let him skip the application fee up front.
He took his BSc at Presidency College in 1975, then a master’s at IIT Kanpur. Stony Brook accepted him, then he joined.
On 22 October 2026 he gave the Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture at Stockholm University, “Gravity from strings and strings from gravity.” The Klein medal comes with that lecture, first Indian physicist to receive the Klein Medal. He also won the inaugural 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize, one of nine, and the 2014 Dirac Medal.
During his PhD, almost three years went by with nothing moving but his plan was ordinary. He read lots of books and review articles, went sightseeing with friends, then hoped it would work out. Something began to click near the end.
“90% of the time I am stuck!” ~ Ashoke Sen
Long stretches of nothing moving are normal in hard work.
In a historic milestone for Indian science, renowned theoretical physicist Professor Ashoke Sen has just been awarded the 2026 Oskar Klein Medal, becoming the first Indian physicist to receive this prestigious honor. Celebrated internationally for his foundational contributions to string theory. Professor Sen delivered the memorial lecture titled "Gravity from strings and strings from gravity" at Stockholm University.
Those of you who don't know, the Oskar Klein Medal is one of theoretical physics' most prestigious honors, awarded annually in Stockholm to celebrate groundbreaking ideas about how our universe works. Instituted in 1988, it is conferred jointly by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The award invites leading thinkers from around the globe to deliver the Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture, recognizing monumental leaps in fields like quantum mechanics, cosmology, and string theory.
The medal is named after Oskar Klein, an influential Swedish theoretical physicist who helped shape early quantum mechanics and modern field theory. Working closely with titans like Niels Bohr, Klein is best remembered for Kaluza–Klein theory, where he proposed the daring idea that extra dimensions of spacetime might exist curled up into microscopic, invisible loops. He also helped formulate the Klein–Gordon equation for relativistic particles and the Klein–Nishina formula for photon scattering, cementing his legacy as a true pioneer of 20th-century physics.
Over the decades, the medal has gone to some of the greatest minds in science, many of whom are also Nobel laureates. Iconic recipients include Chen-Ning Yang, Steven Weinberg, and Hans Bethe in its earliest years, followed by visionary cosmologist Alan Guth and leading theorists like Edward Witten, Gerard 't Hooft, and Peter Higgs. More recently, luminaries such as gravitational physicist Kip Thorne, black hole theorist Roy Kerr, and cosmologist Renata Kallosh have joined this distinguished roster, keeping Klein’s imaginative scientific spirit alive.
