{"id":118490,"date":"2026-08-11T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=118490"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:46:35","slug":"dirac-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dirac-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirac Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dirac Medal Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Deepak Dhar, a theoretical physicist from Uttar Pradesh has been named the co-recipient of Dirac Medal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dirac Medal<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was first <\/span><b>awarded in 1985.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is given in <\/span><b>honor of P.A.M. Dirac,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> one of the <\/span><b>greatest physicists<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the 20th century.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>awarded annually on Dirac&#8217;s birthday<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (August 8), to scientists who have made significant <\/span><b>contributions to theoretical physics.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is awarded by the <\/span><b>International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Selection Process: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An international committee of distinguished scientists selects the winners from a list of nominated candidates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dirac Medal <\/span><b>is not awarded to Nobel Laureates, Fields Medallists, or Wolf Foundation Prize winners<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, although several past Dirac medallists later went on to receive those honours.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Cash Prize:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Medalist also receives a <\/span><b>prize of US $5,000.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What is the International Centre for Theoretical Physics?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an international research institute for <\/span><b>physical and mathematical sciences.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The centre was <\/span><b>founded in 1964.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>operates under a tripartite agreement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between the <\/span><b>Italian Government, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (UNESCO), <\/span><b>and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/international-atomic-energy-agency-iaea\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ICTP is a <\/span><b>UNESCO Category 1 Institute.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located in <\/span><b>Trieste, Italy.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/physicist-deepak-dhar-wins-2026-dirac-medal-10827145\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirac Medal is awarded annually on P.A.M. Dirac&#8217;s birthday (August 8), to scientists who have made significant contributions to theoretical physics. Read more about Dirac Medal, Contributions, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":118545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9459],"class_list":["post-118490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-dirac-medal","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118537,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118490\/revisions\/118537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}