Talk:Dirac Medal

David Sherrington

The link provided takes us to a cricket player, on whose entry there is no mention of being a physicist. If anyone know better, I think this link should be removed or changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.234.83.248 (talk) 23:28, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Jan Martin

Similarly, the link for Jan Martin goes to a hockey player with the same name. My girlfriend, who knows Jan Martin, the chemist, very well, assures me that he is definitely not the hockey player. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jt512 (talk • contribs) 01:50, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

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Topic

The article should have a single topic, and four unrelated (except by name) prizes should not be combined into a single article. I propose to make this into a disambiguation page since IOP and ICTP Dirac medals are AFAIK equally prestigious. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 05:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

Discussion about this split is at WT:PHYS#Dirac Medal. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 04:25, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Surdashan

Following up on the discussion at WP:PHYSICS. I think Surdashan did win both the ICTP and the UNSW Dirac Medal. Going back in the archive (the earliest version 2014) says so [1]. ReyHahn (talk) 09:05, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I am very doubtful of this, because this is the only mention I can find of him winning the prize. For the other winners one can find Press Releases about the lecture. I also did not find a mention about it in Sudarshan's biographies. If he really did win two prizes with the same name on the same year, I would imagine someone would comment on this in his bios. The official site has links to Wikipedia, so it might be a tainted source. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 09:22, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I see I had not considered Sardashan's own CV. Let me see what I can find.--ReyHahn (talk) 09:24, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

I see per the Royal Society of NSW [2] we can only confirm the laureates after 2011. I will raise my doubt about all that came before that.--ReyHahn (talk) 09:36, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

The UNSW list was originally added here in 2011: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/420970902

That list did not have Sudarshan. He was later added by an IP editor. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 11:26, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

There is a link at the bottom to an UNSW website, and its archived: [3] I think this settles it. Jähmefyysikko (talk) 11:31, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

Great find thanks.--ReyHahn (talk) 12:41, 20 October 2023 (UTC)