Indian Nobel Prize Winner
1. रवींद्रनाथ टैगोर (Rabindranath Tagore) 1913 - साहित्य
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
2. सर चंद्रशेखर वेंकटरमन (Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman) 1930 - भौतिकी
carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.
3. हरगोबिंद खुराना – (Hargobind Khorana) 1968 - चिकित्सा
Awarded jointly to Robert W. Holley, Har Gobind Khorana and Marshall W. Nirenberg "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis."
4. मदर टेरेसा (Mother Teresa) 1979 - शांति
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work with the poor.
5. सुब्रह्मण्यम चंद्रशेखर (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar) 1983 -भौतिकी
For his studies on the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars.
6. अमर्त्य सेन (Amartya Sen) 1998 - अर्थशास्त्र
In Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and for his interest in the problems of society's poorest members.
7. वेंकटरमन रामाकृष्ण (Venkatraman Ramakrishnan) 2009 - रसायन
In Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".
8. कैलाश सत्यार्थी (Kailash Satyarthi) 2014 - शांति
Founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labour, Global Campaign for Education, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, and Rugmark now known as Goodweave International.
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The following are Nobel laureates with Indian linkages – foreigners who were born in India, those who are of Indian ancestry and those who were residents in India when they became recipients of the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
1902 Ronald Ross United Kingdom
(born in Almora,British India) Physiology or Medicine "For his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and thereby has laid the foundation for successful research on this disease and methods of combating it."
1907 Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling United Kingdom
(born in Bombay,British India) Literature "In consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author."
1989 14th Dalai Lama India
(born in Taktser,Tibet) Peace "For his consistent resistance to the use of violence in his people’s struggle to regain their liberty."