October 04, 2011

Nobel Prizes Winners from India:-


Citizens of India and Indian Origin:
CV Raman:
Nobel award in 1930 in Physics for proving change in wavelength of light when travels through any object. Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1930. He had been knighted only the year before and worked extensively on acoustics and light.
Rabindranath Tagore:
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a poet, philosopher, educationist, artist and social activist. Tagore's works, written originally in Bengali, were translated into English; the Geetanjali ("Tribute in verse"), a compendium of verses, named 'Song Offerings' in English was widely acclaimed for its literary genius. In 1913, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first person of non-Western heritage to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
Amartya Sen:
Amartya Sen (born 1933) was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work on welfare economics. He has made several key contributions to research in this field, such as to the axiomatic theory of social choice; the definitions of welfare and poverty indexes; and the empirical studies of famine.
Foreign citizens born in India:
Ronald Ross:
Ronald Ross, born in Almora, India, in 1857 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria.He received many honours in addition to the Nobel Prize, and was given Honorary Membership of learned societies of most countries of Europe, and of many other continents.
Rudyard Kipling:
Rudyard Kipling, born in Mumbai, 1865 (then Bombay in British India), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He remains the youngest ever recipient of the Literature Nobel Prize and the first English-language writer to receive the Prize.
Foreign born Indian Citizens:
Mother Teresa:
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was born in Skopje, then a city in Ottoman Empire. She is of Albanian origin. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Toiling for years in the slums of Kolkata (Calcutta), her work centered on caring for the poor and suffering, among whom she herself died.
Indian born Foreign Citizens:
Hargobind Khorana:
Hargobind Khorana (born 1922), a person of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on genes. He had left India in 1945 and became a naturalised United States citizen in the 1970s. He continues to head a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar:
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983. Born in Lahore, India (now in Pakistan) and died in Chicago, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award was University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan:
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan awarded Nobel Prize for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is now a US Citizen.
Foreign Citizens of Indian Origin:
V.S. Naipaul:
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad called as V. S. Naipaul, (born 1932) is a Nobel Prize winning Trinidadian-British writer who is known for his novels focusing on the legacy of the British Empire's colonialism. He suppose to foreign citizen of Indian origin. He has also written works of non-fiction, such as travel writing and essays.
In Briefly,
  1. Ronald Ross,Medicine, 1902
  2. Rudyard Kipling, Literature, 1907
  3. Rabindranath Tagore, Literature, 1913
  4. C. V. Raman, Physics, 1930
  5. Har Gobind Khorana, born in then British India, Medicine, 1968
  6. Mother Teresa, born in then Ottoman Empire, now Macedonia, Peace, 1979
  7. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, born in then British India, Physics, 1983
  8. Amartya Sen, born in then British India, Economics, 1998
  9. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Chemistry, 2009
  10. V.S. Naipaul, Literature, 2001.

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