Thursday 10 October 2013

Nobel Prize Winners from India

1. Rabindranath Tagore ---Literature 1913 Because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.
2. C.V. Raman---Physics 1930 For his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.
3. Har Gobind Khorana*--- Medicine 1968 For their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.
4. Mother Teresa Peace---1979 Humanitarian work.
5. Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar---Physics 1983 For his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.
6. Amartya Sen---Economic Sciences 1998 For his contributions to welfare economics.
7. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan**---Chemistry 2009 For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.

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