{
  "id": 655368,
  "title": "Indian Physicist Deepak Dhar Wins Prestigious 2026 Dirac Medal for Contributions to Statistical Mechanics",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/indian-physicist-deepak-dhar-wins-prestigious-2026-dirac-medal-for",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-12T10:50:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/indian-physicist-deepak-dhar-wins-prestigious-2026-dirac-medal-for-contributions-to-statistical-mechanics"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Indian physicist Deepak Dhar has won the prestigious 2026 Dirac Medal, one of the world's leading honours in theoretical physics, for his “important contributions to statistical mechanics”. Dhar is among four physicists selected for this year's medal, the Italy-based International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), which gives the award, said in a statement. Dhar is a professor at the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}