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Indian Nobel Prize Winners

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913)

Nobel Prize for Literature

Popularly known as Gurudev, India's most famous writer and poet was awarded
Nobel Prize in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913
Tagore was also involved in teaching. In 1901 he founded the famous Santinike
which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University.

DID YOU KNOW?

Rabindranath Tagore is also the author of India's National Anthem.

CHANDRASHEKAR VENKATA RAMAN (1930)

Nobel Prize for Physics

Born at Thiruvanaikkaval in Tamil Nadu, Raman studied at Presidency College,

Madras. Later, he served as Professor of Physics at Calcutta University. C.V.
Raman won the Nobel Prize for an important research in the field of optics (light).
Raman had found that diffused light contained rays of other wavelengths-what is
now popularly known as Raman Effect. His theory explains why the frequency of
light passing through a transparent medium changes.

HARGOBIND KHORANA (1968)

The Nobel Prize for Medicine

Dr. Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He went abroad to get
doctorate in Chemistry and later settled there. It was his study of the human gene
code and the role it plays in protein synthesis that got him the Nobel Prize.

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MOTHER TERESA (1979)

The Nobel Peace Prize

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje, now in

Yugoslavia. She wanted to become a nun and joined the Irish order of the
Sisters of Loretto (at Dublin) in 1928. It is as a nun that Agnes came
Calcutta in 1929. Here she was extremely touched by the misery of the
poor and the sick. She decided to dedicate her life to serving them. She
then founded a group of similar minded
people called the Missionaries of Charity and set up Nirmal Hriday a center where she took care of the dying
lepers and other people who had been left alone on the streets of Calcutta to die. Today her group has cente
over the world.

SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR (1983)

The Nobel Prize for Physics

Dr S. Chandrashekar, is an Indian-born astrophysicist (a branch of astronomy or the study

space). After studying at the Presidency College in Madras, Dr. Chandrashekhar went to th
United States for work and settled there. He has written many books on his field Astrophys
and
Stellar Dynamics. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars forecasts the limit of mass that dwarf stars ca
have. This limit is known as the Chandrashekar Limit. His theory also explains the final stages of the evoluti
stars.
DID YOU KNOW?
Dr. Chandrashekar is the nephew of another Nobel Prize winner Sir C.V. Raman.

AMARTYA SEN (1998)

Nobel Prize for Economics

Prof. Amartya Sen is the first Asian to win the Economics Nobel. He is one of the most
respected economics thinker in the world. He is also an excellent teacher. He won the Nobel
for his work in the area of economic theory. Some of his most important work is in the
areas of poverty, democracy, development and social welfare.

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