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Indian nobel prize winners
This document provides information about Indian Nobel laureates, including their names, categories, and brief biographies. It discusses the 8 Indians who have won Nobel Prizes: Rabindranath Tagore for Literature in 1913; C.V. Raman for Physics in 1930; Har Gobind Khorana for Medicine in 1968; Mother Teresa for Peace in 1979; Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar for Physics in 1983; Amartya Sen for Economics in 1998; Venkataraman Ramakrishnan for Chemistry in 2009; and Kailash Satyarthi for Peace in 2014. Each contributed significant work in their respective fields.
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- 1. ENGLISHPROJECTWORK • PREPERED BY: •KRISHNA RAJ MISHRA
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- 3. AWARDED BY:ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY PLACE:STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN), NORWAY(ONLY PEACE PRIZE) STARTED IN:1901
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- 7. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) wasthe youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.
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- 9. Sir ChandrasekharVenkata Raman, (7 November 1888 – 21 November 1970) was an Indian physicist, born in the former Madras Province whose ground breaking work in the field of light scattering earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics. He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon is now called Raman scattering and is the result of the Raman effect. In 1954, he was honoured with the highest civilian award in India, the Bharat Ratna.
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- 11. Hargobind Khorana(January 9, 1922 – November 9, 2011) was an Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Khorana and Nirenberg were also awarded the Louisa Gross Hurwitz Prize from Columbia University in the same year.
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- 13. Blessed Teresaof Calcutta, commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was a Roman Catholic Religious Sister and missionary who lived most of her life in India. She was born in today's Macedonia, with her family being of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo. Mother Teresa was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2003, she was beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta".
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- 15. Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar,(October 19, 1910 – August 21, 1995), was an Indian American astrophysicist born in Lahore who, with William A. Fowler, was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for his mathematical theory of black holes, which was a key discovery that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.
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- 17. Amartya KumarSen ( born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well- being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.
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- 19. Ramakrishnan wasborn in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India to C. V. Ramakrishnan and R. Raja Lakshmi. Both his parents were scientists and taught biochemistry at the Maharaja Sayajira University in Baroda. He move to Vadodara (previously also known as Baroda) in Gujarat at the age of three, where he had his schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary, except for spending 1960–61 in Adelaide, Australia. Following his Pre-Science at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, he did his undergraduate studies in the same university on a National Science Talent Scholarship, graduating with a BSc degree in Physics in 1971.
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- 21. Originally namedKailash Sharma, Satyarthi was born on 11 January 1954 in the Vidisha district of central Indian state Madhya Pradesh. He attended Government Boys Higher Secondary School, and completed his degree in electrical engineering at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute, Vidisha and a post- graduate degree in high-voltage engineering. He then joined a college in Bhopal as a lecturer for a few years.
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