About Boltzmann Medal:

• Boltzmann Medal was initiated in 1975. It is awarded by the Commission on Statistical Physics (C3) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
• The award is given to physicists that obtain new results concerning statistical mechanics. The award is given only once to a person and on the condition that that person has not won the Nobel Prize so far.
• It has been named after Austrian Physicist Ludwig Boltzmann who gave statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics.
• Physicist Professor Deepak Dhar has become the first Indian to be awarded the Boltzmann Medal. He shares the medal with John J Hoefield of Princeton University.

Source: EPIC March 2022