Nobel Prize Winners in India, Indian Nobel Laureates List, Names
Friends, we are going to tell you about the world’s most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize. This prestigious award was started in 1901 by the Noble Foundation. It is given in memory of renowned Swedish scientist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. He was a great scientist, engineer, inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. He is best known for bequeathing his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize.
Since 1901 to 2022, the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel were awarded 615 times to 989 people and organizations. Some personalities were awarded with this award more than once. Some names who had won the Nobel Prize twice are Marie Curie, John Bardeen, Linus Pauling and Frederick Sanger.
Rabindranath Tagore was first Indian to win the Nobel Prize in 1913. He was multifaceted personality, a great poet, musician, and painter. So far nine Indians have been awarded with this prestigious award. Four persons of Indian linkage were also awarded with Nobel Prizes.
This award is offered in six different fields, such as Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Peace and Physiology or Medicine. The Nobel awardee is called Laureates and is given a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award.
Indians who were awarded Nobel Prize for their distinguished works
1.Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
He was the son of Debendranath Tagore, a renowned philosopher and social reformer. In 1877, Rabindranath Tagore went to England to study and there he studied law and attended lectures on English literature. He wrote a number of novels, short stories, plays, letters, essays and memoirs. He was also adept in musical compositions. He was one of the greatest poets of India and received Nobel Prize for his poetry book “Gitanjali” in 1913. He had also composed the national anthem of India.
2. Sir C. V. Raman (1988-1970)
One of the brilliant jewels of India, C.V. Raman win Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for his “Raman” effect. Raman Effect was discovered on 28 February, 1928 and thus on this day is celebrated as National Science Day in India.
3.Dr. Hargobind Khorana (1922-2011)
Dr. Khorana was awarded with Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology in 1968. Khorana has the distinction of producing the first man-made gene in a lab. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize with Marshall Nuremberg and Robert Holley.
4. Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Great social worker Mother Teresa was awarded with Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. This Yugoslavia born great soul spent her entire life helping the poor and the sick through the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
5.Dr. Subramanian Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)
Dr. Subramanian Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983. It is noteworthy to learn that he was the nephew of Nobel winner, C. V. Raman. He won the Nobel Prize for his work on stars and their evolution.
6. Dr. Amartya Sen (1933-
World renowned economist, Dr. Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. He was awarded with this prestigious award for his work in Welfare economics.
7. Venkatraman Ramkrishnan (1952)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
8. Kailash Satyarthi (1954- )
Social worker Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan in 2014 – “for the struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
9. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (21 February, 1961)
Abhijit Banerjee is a Professor of Eonomics and was awarded with this prestigious awarad together with his wife Esther Duflo and American economist Michael Kremer, for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. In 2003 alongwith his wife Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan he founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and remains one of the directors of the lab. Abhijit Benerjee has written a large number of articles and five books, including Poor Economics, which won the Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year, and Good Economics for Hard Times, both co-authored with Esther Duflo.
Person of Indian linkage who were awarded with Nobel Prizes
1.V.S. Naipaul (1932- 2018 )
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a British writer of Indian origin was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. He was born in Trinidad.
2.Ronald Ross (1857-1932)
He was born in present Uttarakhand (Almora) in British India. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on deadly disease Malaria. He carried out successful research on this disease and explained how parasites of malaria enter the body and infected it.
3.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay and received the Nobel Award for his contribution in Literature.
4.Dalai Lama( 1935-)
The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) , the supreme leader of Tibbet was awarded with this award in 1989. He was born in Taktser, Tibet (now People’s Republic of China)but is living in India since 1959. He received Nobel Prize for Peace and Freedom.