Nobel Prize Winners of India

 Nobel Prize Winners of 🇮🇳India 

• Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in Literature (1913)

He won India’s first Nobel prize. He was a poet, philosopher and an esteemed educationist. He was the first non-Westerner to be conferred with the Nobel prize in Literature. He won the nation’s first Nobel prize for his collection of poems, compiled in his book, Gitanjali. The book is still widely read across the world and particularly in India.

• C.V. Raman, Nobel Prize in Physics (1930)
  

  

   He was bestowed with the Nobel prize, in 1930, for his distinguished contribution in Physics. He did exceptional work on the behaviour of light or light scattering. The research he did was named after him,  termed as the Raman Effect. He discovered the reasons for the blue colour of the sky. He was the first person from the whole of Asia to achieve this feat in physics. His day of discovery is celebrated as National Science day in India on 28th February.

• Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968)

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology, in 1968, for his work in genetic research which showed how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids carry the genetic code of the cell. 

• Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize (1979)

She is extolled as a model of compassion. Born in North Macedonia, Mother Teresa soon came to India and became one of the most prominent Nobel laureates of India. In the year 1952, she established Nirmal Hriday, a hospice where the terminally ill could die with peace and dignity. She worked for the destitute class to alleviate their distress. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her extraordinary humanitarian efforts. 

• Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize in Physics (1983)

He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars and black holes. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.

• Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1998)

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his significant contributions to Welfare Economics and his exemplary work for the causes and prevention of famines. Sen was born in erstwhile Calcutta. He is currently working his time teaching in the USA and UK. He has written books which carry a vigorous intellectual depth.

• Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born British and American structural biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

• Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Prize (2014)

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian children's rights activist. He founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement) in 1980. He has acted to protect the rights of 80,000 children.He was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

• Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2019)

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an India-born naturalized American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".He and Esther Duflo, who are married, are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.

His new book, co-authored with Esther Duflo, Good Economics for Hard Times, was released in October 2019 in India by Juggernaut Books. He was sent to Delhi's Tihar Jail for 10 days for participating in protests at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1983.

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Nobel Prize Winners List 2020

• Louise Glück, Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
• Andrea M. Ghez, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
• Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice Harvey J. Alter, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
• Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
• Paul R. Milgrom, Robert P. Wilson, Nobel Prize in Economics 2020
• World Food Programme, Nobel Peace Prize 2020