Name
|
Picture
|
Year
|
Category
|
Facts
|
Rabindranath
Tagore
|
|
1913
|
Literature
|
- He won Nobel Prize for his
work ‘Gitanjali’.
- He is also the author of
Indian national anthem
- He founded “Shantiniketan”,
which later became Viswa Bharati University
|
C.
V. Raman
|
|
1930
|
Physics
|
- He won Nobel Prize for discovering
Raman effect
- Every year on 28 February
National science day is celebrated to commemorate the discovery of Raman
effect
- He was the founder of Raman
research institute in Bangalore.
|
Har
Gobind Khorana
|
|
1968
|
Medicine
|
- He won Nobel Prize for
discovering how genetic code of a cell controls the synthesis of
protein.
- He is Indian born American
citizen (became U.S. citizen in 1968).
|
Mother
Teresa
|
|
1979
|
Peace
|
- She won Nobel prize for her
humanitarian work.
- She was a foreign born Indian
citizen.
- She was the founder of
“Missionaries of Charity” in Calcutta.
|
Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar
|
|
1983
|
Physics
|
- Won Nobel Prize for the
discovery of “Chandrasekhar limit”.
- He was the nephew of Sir
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.
- He was a Indian born U.S.
citizen (became U.S. citizen in 1953).
|
Amartya
Sen
|
|
1998
|
Economic
Sciences
|
- Won Nobel for his
contribution to welfare economics, famine, economic and social justice.
- He won Bharat Ratna award in
1999.
|
Venkatraman
Ramakrishnan
|
|
2009
|
Chemistry
|
- He won Nobel Prize for
studies of the structure and function of the ribosomes.
- He is now a U.S. citizen.
|
