Noble Prize Winners of India

 

Name	Points
Rabindranath Tagore	- He got the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1913. - He got the prize when India was still under British raj. - He got the country’s first Nobel Prize. - He was a poet, artist, and thinker. - He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. - He won the award largely for his collection of poems, Gitanjali.
CV Raman	- He got the Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1930. - His full name is Sri Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman. - He was an Indian physicist from Tamil Nadu. - He became the second of the Indian Nobel Laureates. - He was awarded for his work in the field of light scattering termed the Raman Effect or Raman Scattering. - He became the first person from Asia to be awarded for achievements in the field of science. - He discovered why the sky is blue. - His research was on how light behaves when it passes through various substances. - The day of his discovery, 28th February, is celebrated every year as the National Science Day in India.
Har Gobind Khurana	- He got the Nobel Prize for Medicine in the year 1968. - He was a biochemist. - He was born in Raipur, in British India. - He later went to the United States and became an American citizen. - He was awarded for his work in genetic research.
Mother Teresa	- She won the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1979. - She dedicated her entire life in helping and uplifting the poor and needy. - She was born in Kosovo, Serbia. - She moved to India when she was 19. - In 1948, she started working to help the poor and needy through the charity organization – Missionaries of Charity. - She was also declared as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 2016.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	- He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in the year 1983. - He was born in Lahore in undivided India. - He spent his working life in the United States, where he became a citizen. - He was an astrophysicist. - He was a nephew of CV Raman. - His work was related to the structure and evolution of stars.
Amartya Sen	- He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in the year 1998. - His work was on welfare economics. - He was born and raised in Kolkata. - He has written many books on economics.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	- He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year 2009. - He spent his study of molecular biology at the University of California, San Diego. - He was awarded for his work on the RNA structure of ribosomal unit. - He was born in Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu.
Kailash Satyarthi	- He won the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2014. - He started the NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan. - He is a child rights activist, works to end child labour. - He was awarded for his work towards eradicating child labour and child trafficking.
Abhijit Banerjee	- He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in the year 2019. - His full name is Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee. - He was born on February 21, 1961 in  Mumbai, India. - He was awarded for helping to develop an innovative experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. - He won the award jointly with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer. - He and Duflo were married in 2015.