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Indian Nobel Prize Winners
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RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913)
Nobel Prize for Literature
Popularly known as Gurudev, India's most famous writer and poet was
awarded the 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 Santiniketan which later came to be
known as Vishwabharati University.
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DID YOU KNOW?
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Rabindranath Tagore is also the author of India's National
Anthem. |
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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.
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HARGOBIND KHORANA (1968)
The Nobel Prize for Medicine
Dr.
Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He went abroad
to get his doctorate in Chemistry and later settled there. It was
his study of the human genetic 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
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people
called the Missionaries of Charity and set up Nirmal Hriday a center
where she took care of the dying, the lepers and other people who
had been left alone on the streets of Calcutta to die. Today her
group has centers all over the world. |
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SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR (1983)
The
Nobel Prize for Physics
Dr S.
Chandrashekar, is an Indian-born astrophysicist (a branch of
astronomy or the study of space). After studying at the Presidency
College in Madras, Dr. Chandrashekhar went to the United States for
work and settled there. He has written many books on his field
Astrophysics and |
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Stellar Dynamics. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars
forecasts the limit of mass that dwarf stars can have. This
limit is known as the Chandrashekar Limit. His theory also
explains the final stages of the evolution of stars. |
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DID YOU KNOW?
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Dr.
Chandrashekar is the nephew of another Nobel Prize winner Sir
C.V. Raman. |
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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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