Oct 14, 2024
By: Kapil Yadav
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Established in 1895 by Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prizes are awarded to individuals across various fields, including Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Economic Sciences and Peace. Here is a list of Indian citizens or individuals of Indian origin who have been awarded the Nobel Prize over the years.
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Awarded the Nobel prize in 1913 for his work Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore became the first Indian Nobel laureate. But, in 1919, he renounced his knighthood in protest of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
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Born in Tiruchirapalli, India, in 1888, CV Raman won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and the Raman effect. He also pioneered the Indian Journal of Physics and the Indian Academy of Sciences.
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Har Gobind Khorana won the Nobel Prize in 1968 in Physiology or Medicine for his work on how the genetic components of the cell nucleus control protein synthesis. Although born in India, he became a U.S. citizen in 1966.
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Born in Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia in 1910 Mother Teresa became an Indian citizen in 1951. She won the award for her extensive humanitarian work aimed at fighting poverty and distress across the world.
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Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his work and studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars. His theory on the final stages of massive stars’ evolution became a foundation of modern astrophysics.
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Born in Santiniketan in 1933, Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 for his work in welfare economics and social choice theory, particularly concerning issues affecting society's poorest members.
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Born in 1952, in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan later became an American citizen. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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Kailash Satyarthi won a Nobel prize in 2014 for his lifelong fight against the exploitation of children and young people and for the right of every child to receive an education.
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Born in Mumbai, India, Abhijeet Banerjee is an American economist who became a Nobel Laureate in 2019. He won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for the development of new ways to reduce global poverty.
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