Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gets the prestigious Oxford University Bodley Medal

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gets the prestigious Oxford University Bodley Medal, which is the highest honor conferred by the University of Oxford’s famous Bodleian Libraries. The medal is awarded to those individuals who have achieved excellence and made unparallel contributions to the fields in which the Bodleian is active, including culture, literature, science, and communication. The statement made by the library said, "The honor 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 85-year old winner of Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, who is a faculty member at Harvard Law School and Thomas W Lamont University Professor at Harvard University, received the medal from Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Bodley's Librarian Richard Ovenden.

Earlier, this year’s other Bodley Medal winner is Noble Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who will hold an in-conversation event with Ovenden next week in order to celebrate the honor. Past winners of the award include novelist Hilary Mantel, founder of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee and physicist Stephen Hawking.