Nobel Prize Winners of India – Rabindranath Tagore – 1913 – Literature, “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”
Nobel Prize Winners of India
Laureates
Year |
Laureates |
Subject |
Note |
1913 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Literature |
“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”
|
1930 |
Sir Venkata Raman | Physics | “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him” |
1968 |
Har Gobind Khorana | Medicine | “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis” |
1979 |
Mother Teresa | Peace | |
1983 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Physics | “for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars” |
1998 |
Amartya Sen | Economic Science | “for his contributions to welfare economics” |
2009 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome” |
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