INDIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS LIST
Way back in 1913, when India was still a British colony, Rabindranath Tagore put India on the world map by winning the country’s first Nobel Prize.
Rabindranath Tagore – Nobel Prize for Literature (1913)
If you have ever wondered why the sky is blue, then you have at some point unwittingly thought of the Raman Effect. CV Raman or Sri Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist from Tamil Nadu who became the second of the Indian Nobel Laureates.
CV Raman – Nobel Prize for Physics (1930)
Har Gobind Khurana was a biochemist who was born in Raipur, in British India. He later emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in genetic research. He shared this prize with his fellow researcher.
Har Gobind Khurana – Nobel Prize for Medicine (1968)
Har Gobind Khurana was a biochemist who was born in Raipur, in British India. He later emigrated to the United States and became an American citizen. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in genetic research. He shared this prize with his fellow researcher.
Mother Teresa – Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
He was an astrophysicist and, incidentally, a nephew of CV Raman. He shares his Nobel Prize with his fellow researcher for their work relating to the structure and evolution of stars.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Nobel Prize for Physics (1983)
Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on welfare economics. Sen was born and raised in Kolkata where he still spends his winters. He spends the rest of his time teaching in the USA and UK.
Amartya Sen – Nobel Prize for Economics (1998)
Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work in this field. He shared this award with two of his research peers. Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu; his parents were both scientists and his early education was in Tamil Nadu and Gujarat.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
Have you heard of the Bachpan Bachao Andolan? This NGO, started by Kailash Satyarthi – a child rights activist, works to end child labour. Satyarthi was awarded the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize in 2015 for his work towards eradicating child labour and child trafficking.
Kailash Satyarthi – Nobel Peace Prize (2014)
. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work in 1907 and was the first English-language writer to receive the prize.
Abhijit Banerjee – Nobel Prize for Economics (2019)