Ronald Ross, born
in Almora,
Uttrakhand, India,
in 1857, was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria.
Rudyard Kipling,
born in Mumbai,
1865 (then Bombay in British
India), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907. He
remains the youngest ever recipient of the Literature Nobel Prize and
the first English-language writer to receive the Prize
Rabindranath Tagore
was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and
music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh
and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win
the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913
C.V.Raman was born at
Thiruvanaikaval, near Tiruchirappalli,
Tamil Nadu.
- Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for the effect named after him." from Kolkata[1] Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1930.
- Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1979 in recognition of her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity."[6]
Mother Teresa's real name was
Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxiu (1910–1997) was born in Skopje, then a city in
Ottoman Empire.She was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian origin and
Indian citizenship.[
Amartya Sen (born 1933 ,
Kolkata) was the
first Indian to receive the Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work
on welfare
economics.
Hargobind Khorana (1922-2011),
a person
of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Robert
W. Holley and Marshall
W. Nirenberg.
Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, Punjab, British
India in a Tamil
family. His paternal uncle was the Indian physicist and Nobel
laureate C. V.
Raman.
- Chandrasekhar shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 1983 '"for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars."' Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 with William Alfred Fowler. Born: 19 October 1910, L
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, born in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry as a US Citizen
Other Nobel laureates with a connection to India
- Abdus
Salam, born 1926 in British India won
the Nobel prize in Physics as a Pakistan national in 1979.
- The 14th
Dalai Lama, born 1935 in Tibet won the
Nobel prize for peace as "the religious and political leader of
the Tibetan people" in 1989. He has been residing in exile in
India since 1959.
- V.S.Naipaul
Trinidadian born British citizen of Indian
descent won the Nobel prize in literature in 2001.
- Muhammad
Yunus, born 1940 in British India won
the Nobel prize for peace as a Bangladesh national in 2006.
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