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Nobel Laureates of India

Nobel Laureates of India
Amrtya Sen (B-1933) Prof. Amartya Sen is the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics for the year 1998, becoming the first Asian to have been honoured with the award. The Santiniketan-born economist who is a pioneer in Welfare Economics has to his credit several books and papers on aspects of welfare and development.
Subramanian Chandrashekar (1910-1955) The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 was awarded to Dr. S. Chandrashekar, an Indian-born astrophysicist. Educated in Presidency College, Chennai, Dr. Dhandrashekar happened to be the nephew of his Nobel forbear, Sir C.V. Raman. He developed a theory on while dwarf stars which posts a limit of mass of dwarf stars known also as Chandrashekar Limit. His theory explains the final stages of stellar evolution.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa in 1979 Albanian parentage, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born at Skopje, now in Yugoslavia. She joined the Irish order of the Sisters of Lorettor at Dublin in 1928 and came to Kolkata in 1929 as a missionary, only to find the misery of the abandoned and the destitute, Concern for the poor and the sick prompted her to found a new congregation, Missionaries of Charity. Having become an Indian Citizen, Mother Teresa served the cause of dying destitutes, lepers and drug addicts, through Nirmal Hriday (meaning Pure Heart).
Hargobind Khorana (B. 1922) Hargobind Khorana was awarded the Noble Prize for Medicine in 1968. Of Indian origin, Dr. Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He took his University of Wisconsin as a Faculty Member in 1960. His major breakthrough in the field of Medicine – interpreting the genetic code and analysing its function in protein synthesis – fetched him the Noble Prize.
Chandrashekar Venkataraman (1888-1970) India’s first Noble Prize for Physics was claimed in 1930 by the renowned physicist Sir C.V. Raman. Born at Thiruvanaikkaval near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, Sir C.V. Raman received the Noble Prize for an important optics research, in which he discovered that diffused light contained rays of other wavelengths – what is now popularly known as Raman Effect.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian ever to receive a Nobel Prize. Popularly known as Gurudev, India’s Poet Laureate Tagore was born on 7 May 1861 in Kolkata. He was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913. Tagore wrote many love lyrics. Geetanjali and Sadhana are among his important works. The poet, dramatist and novelist is also the author of India’s National Anthem. In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University.
Kailash Satyarthi (Born 11 January, 1954) He received the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December, 2014. He is a children’s rights activist and his ‘Global March Against Child Labour’ movement is now represented in more than 140 countries.
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Born 21 February, 1961) He shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to allemarried couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.
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