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Spectrum Chart - 742 : Nobel Prize Winners of India
1. Rabindranath Tagore -
Rabindranath Tagore (7th May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a poet of
India. He was also a philosopher and an artist. He wrote many
stories, novels, poems and dramas. He is also very well known for
composing music. His writings greatly influenced Bengali culture
during the late 19th century and early 20th century. In 1913, he won
the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first Asian ever to win
this prize. Rabindranath Tagore was popularly known as "Gurudev."
His major works included Gitanjali (Song Offerings), a world-famous
poetry book. He made it possible to make art using different forms
and styles.
2. C. V. Raman - Chandrasekhara
Venkata Raman, FRS (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an
Indian physicist. He studied light scattering. He won the Nobel Prize
in Physics in 1930 for his work in this subject. He discovered that,
when light passes through a transparent material, some of the
deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called
Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect. In 1954,
India honoured him with its highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
3. Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa
(26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic nun who
started the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in
1979 for her work with people. For over forty years, she took care of
needs of those without money, those who were sick, those without
parents, and those dying in Calcutta (Kolkata), guided in part by the
ideals of Saint Francis of Assisi.
4. Amartya Sen - Amartya Kumar
Sen (born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher of
Bengali origin. Since 1972 has taught and worked in the United
Kingdom and the United States. He worked in welfare economics, social
choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of
famines and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of
developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in
1998 and Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. He
was also awarded the inaugural Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes
Prize in recognition of his work on welfare economics in February
2015 during a reception at the Royal Academy in the UK. In 2017, Sen
was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for most
valuable contribution to Political Science.
5. Kailash Satyarathi - Kailash
Satyarthi (born 11 January 1954) is an Indian children's rights
activist. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the founder of
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s
Foundation, Global March Against Child Labour and GoodWeave
International. Till date, Kailash Satyarthi and his team at the
Bachpan Bachao Andolan have liberated more than 86,000 children in
India from child labour, slavery and trafficking. In 1998, Satyarthi
led the Global March against Child Labour, 80,000 km long physical
march across 103 countries to put forth a global demand against child
labour. The movement became one of the largest social movements ever
on behalf of exploited children.
6. Har Gobind Khorana - Har
Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) was an Indian
American biochemist. While on the faculty of the University of
Wisconsin, he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that
showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the
genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of
proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross
Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
7. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar FRS PV (19 October 1910 – 21 August
1995), was an Indian American astrophysicist who spent his
professional life in the United States. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel
Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler for "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 best current theoretical models of the
later evolutionary stages of massive stars and black holes. The
Chandrasekhar limit is named after him. Chandrasekhar worked on a
wide variety of physical problems in his lifetime, contributing to
the contemporary understanding of stellar structure, white dwarfs,
stellar dynamics, stochastic process, radiative transfer, the quantum
theory of the hydrogen anion, hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic
stability, turbulence, equilibrium and the stability of ellipsoidal
figures of equilibrium, general relativity, mathematical theory of
black holes and theory of colliding gravitational waves.
8. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) is an Indian-born
American-British biochemist and biophysicist. He received the 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E.
Yonath for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. He
is the current President of the Royal Society, having held the
position since November 2015. Since 1999, he has worked as a group
leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular
Biology(LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK, where he is also
the Deputy Director.
9. Ronald Ross - Sir Ronald Ross
KCB KCMG FRS FRCS (13 May 1857 – 16 September 1932), was a British
medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or
Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria,
becoming the first British Nobel laureate and the first born outside
Europe. He worked in the Indian Medical Service for 25 years. It was
during his service that he made the groundbreaking medical discovery.
10. Rudyard
Kipling - Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936)
was an English author and poet. He was born in Bombay, India. He
wrote children's fiction, like Kim, The Jungle Book and Puck of Pooks
Hill. He also wrote the well-known poems, If —and Gunga Din, and
many short stories set in India. He was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize
in Literature.
11. 14th
Dalai Lama - 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin
Gyatso, born on 6 July 1935) is the current
Dalai Lama. Dalai Lamas are important monks of the Gelug school, the
newest school of Tibetan Buddhism. He is the political and spiritual
leader of Tibet. In 1989 he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize for his
work encouraging understanding between different religions and
encouraging people and countries to care for one another. During the
1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India, where he
currently lives as a refugee. He has traveled the world and has
spoken about the welfare of Tibetans, environment, economics, women's
rights, non-violence, interfaith dialogue, physics, astronomy,
Buddhism and science, cognitive neuroscience, reproductive health,
and sexuality, along with various topics of Mahayana and
VajrayanaBuddhist teachings.
12. V.
S. Naipaul - Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, (born 17 August
1932), is a British writer of Indian descent and Nobel Laureate who
was born in Trinidad. He is known for his comic early novels set in
Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and
his autobiographical chronicles of life and travels. He has published
more than thirty books, both of fiction and nonfiction, over some
fifty years. V. S. Naipaul was the first person of
Indian origin to win a Booker Prize (1971).
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