Nobel Prize recipient honoured with Oxford University’s Bodley Award

Nobel Prize recipient honoured with Oxford University's Bodley Award

Question: Name the Nobel Prize recipient who has been honoured with Oxford University’s Bodley Award recently?
(a) Amartya Sen
(b) Arjuna Sengupta
(c) Stephen Hawking
(d) Srinivasa Ramanujan
Answer 🙁 a)
Related facts:

  • On 15 March 2019, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has been awarded the prestigious Bodley Medal, the highest honour bestowed by the University of Oxford’s world-famous Bodleian Libraries.
  • The Medal is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the fields in which the Bodleian is active, including literature, culture, science and communication.
  • The honour was awarded to Sen at an annual event commemorating the birth of the Libraries’ founder Sir Thomas Bodley.
  • Past winners of the honour include physicist Stephen Hawking, novelist Hilary Mantel and inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee.

Abhinav Mishra

Links:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/nobel-laureate-amartya-sen-honoured-with-oxford-universitys-bodley-medal/articleshow/68609684.cms
https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/notification/story/nobel-prize-recipient-amartya-sen-to-be-awarded-with-oxford-university-s-bodley-award-1488592-2019-03-28