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Amartya Sen awarded Oxford University's Bodley medal | 
March 29, 2019
LONDON: Nobel laureate and noted economist Amartya Sen has been awarded Oxford
University's prestigious Bodley medal. The medal is awarded by the university's
world famous Bodleian Libraries for outstanding contribution in the fields of
literature, culture, science and communication - fields in which Bodleian is
engaged.
"The honour was awarded (to Sen) during the Founder's Lunch on 15 March, an
annual event commemorating the birth of the Libraries' founder, Sir Thomas Bodley,
and his legacy of philanthropy," the library said in a statement on Wednesday.
Sen, 85, received the medal from Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the
University of Oxford, and Bodley's librarian Richard Ovenden.
Past winners of the honour include physicist Stephen Hawking, novelist Hilary
Mantel and inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee.
The winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Sen is Economics
Professor at Harvard University. A Bharat Ratna awardee, Sen got his Nobel prize
for his contribution to welfare economics.
Another winner of Bodley Medal this year is Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo
Ishiguro.
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