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Roland Ross- 1902
Sir Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the diseases.He worked in the Indian Medical Service for 25 years. -
Rudyard Kipling- 1907
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. His works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King".In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient of his time. -
Rabindranath Tagore- 1913
Rabindranath Tagore also known as Kabiguru, and Biswakabi, was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the India. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial. -
CV Raman- 1930
Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman, an Indian physicist from Tamil Nadu.He worked in the field of light scattering, earning the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. The first Asian to get the award in science. He discovered that when light traverses a transparent material some of the deflected light changes wavelength and amplitude. This phenomenon,known as Raman scattering, results from the Raman effect. In 1954 the Indian government honoured him with the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. -
Har Gobind Khorana- 1968
Har Gobind Khorana was a biochemist from British India who later took American citizenship. While on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin he shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell's synthesis of proteins. -
Mother Teresa- 1979
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu known as Mother Teresa. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis.
Teresa received a number of honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. -
Subramanyan Chandrashekhar- 1983
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was an Indian American astrophysicist who spent his professional life in the United States.He was awarded the1983Nobel Prize for Physics with William A.Fowler for "theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".His mathematical treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the current theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive stars and black holes.The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him. -
Amartya Sen- 1998
Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and India's Bharat Ratna in 1999 for his work in welfare economics. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and measures of well-being of countries.He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor at Harvard.[4] -
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan-2009
Sir Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan is an Indian-born American and British structural biologist. In 2009 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".He was elected President of the Royal Society for a term of five years starting in 2015.Since 1999, he has worked as a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, UK. -
Kailash Satyarthi- 2014
Kailash Satyarthi born 11 January 1954 is a children's rights activist from India. He is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and 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. -
Abhijit Banerjee-2019
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee is an Indian-born American economist,who is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Banerjee shared the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." He along with his wife Esther Duflo are the sixth married couple to jointly win a Nobel Prize.
