[Desi Masala] Indian noble prize winners

hello friends these are the Indian noble prize winners

RABINDRANATH
TAGORE (1913)

Nobel Prize for
Literature

Popularly known as Gurudev , India 's
most famous writer and poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his
work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913. Tagore was also involved in
teaching. In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be
known as Vishwabharati
University .

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Rabindranath
Tagore is also the author of India 's
National Anthem.

CHANDRASHEKAR
VENKATA RAMAN
(1930)

Nobel Prize for
Physics

Born at Thiruvanaikkaval in Tamil Nadu, Raman
studied at Presidency College , Madras .
Later, he served as Professor of Physics at Calcutta University .
C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for an important research in the field of optics
(light). Raman had found that diffused light contained rays of other
wavelengths-what is now popularly known as Raman Effect. His theory explains
why the frequency of light passing through a transparent medium changes.

HARGOBIND
KHORANA (1968)

The Nobel Prize for
Medicine

Dr. Khorana was born in Raipur ,
Punjab (now in Pakistan ).
He went abroad to get his doctorate in Chemistry and later settled there. It
was his study of the human genetic code and the role it plays in protein
synthesis that got him the Nobel Prize.
 

MOTHER
TERESA (1979)

The Nobel Peace Prize

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje , now in Yugoslavia .. She wanted to become a
nun and joined the Irish order of the Sisters of Loretto (at Dublin ) in 1928. It is as a nun that Agnes
came Calcutta
in 1929. Here she was extremely touched by the misery of the poor and the sick.
She decided to dedicate her life to serving them. She then founded a group of
similar minded people
called the Missionaries of Charity and set up Nirmal Hriday a center where she
took care of the dying, the lepers and other people who had been left alone on
the streets of Calcutta
to die. Today her group has centers all over the world.

SUBRAMANIAN
CHANDRASHEKAR
(1983)

The Nobel Prize for
Physics

Dr S. Chandrashekar, is an Indian-born
astrophysicist (a branch of astronomy or the study of space). After studying at
the Presidency College
in Madras , Dr. Chandrashekhar went to the United States
for work and settled there. He has written many books on his field Astrophysics
and

Stellar
Dynamics. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars forecasts the limit of
mass that dwarf stars can have. This limit is known as the Chandrashekar
Limit. His theory also explains the final stages of the evolution of stars.




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Dr.
Chandrashekar is the nephew of another Nobel Prize winner Sir C.V. Raman.

AMARTYA
SEN (1998)

Nobel Prize for
Economics

Prof. Amartya Sen is the first Asian to win the
Economics Nobel. He is one of the most respected economics thinker in the
world. He is also an excellent teacher. He won the Nobel for his work in the
area of economic theory. Some of his most important work is in the areas of
poverty, democracy, development and social welfare

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