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UPSC CSE Prelims 2026 · GS Paper I · Question 81 · Persons, awards & miscellany

‘X’ का जन्म UK में हुआ । उन्हें 2025 में नोबेल पुरस्कार प्रदान किया गया । जब इस पुरस्कार की घोषणा…

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2026, General Studies Paper I, Question 81 — Persons, awards & miscellany.

Prelims 2026 · Q81

Persons, awards & miscellany Medium Provisional key

‘X’ का जन्म UK में हुआ । उन्हें 2025 में नोबेल पुरस्कार प्रदान किया गया । जब इस पुरस्कार की घोषणा की गई, तब वे एक अमरीकी विश्वविद्यालय में प्रोफेसर थे । ‘X’ को पहचानिए :

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‘X’, born in the UK, was conferred the Nobel Prize in 2025. He was a professor in an American university when this prize was announced. Identify ‘X’:

(a) Michel H. Devoret · (b) Richard Robson · (c) John Clarke · (d) Joel Mokyr

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (c) जॉन क्लार्क

John Clarke, a 2025 Nobel laureate in Physics, was born in Cambridge, UK, and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The other laureates named were either not born in the UK or did not hold an American professorship.

  • ✓ (c) John Clarke (Physics 2025) was born in 1942 in Cambridge, UK, and is Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
  • ✗ (a) Michel H. Devoret shared the same Physics prize but was born in Paris, France.
  • ✗ (b) Richard Robson (Chemistry 2025) was born in Glusburn, UK, but is Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • ✗ (d) Joel Mokyr (Economic Sciences 2025) works at Northwestern University, USA, but was born in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Remember · Physics Nobel 2025: John Clarke (UK-born, UC Berkeley), Michel Devoret and John Martinis, for macroscopic quantum tunnelling in an electric circuit.

Sources

Question and answer: UPSC's provisional GS Paper I (2026, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·

Cite this question: UPSC CSE Prelims 2026, Q81 — minimalistias.com/pyqs/prelims/2026/q81

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