Kannada Kannadigaru: GREAT INDIANS

2014 Padma Awards Complete List : Republic Day 26th Jan 2014

Great Indian Scientists of all Time

Nobel Prize Indian Winners
The following six Indians have been awarded Nobel Prize in various fields, so far:-

1. Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore is an India’s popular poet and writer. He was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his “Geetanjali” a collection of his poems.

Born: May 7, 1861, Jorasanko

Died: August 7, 1941, Jorasanko Thakur Bari

Spouse: Mrinalini Devi (m. 1883–1902)

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature

Education: University of Calcutta, St. Xavier's Collegiate School, University College London

Songs:

Jana Gana Mana-National anthem of India

Āmār shonār Bānglā-Bangladesh anthem

2. Chandra Shekar Venkata Raman/Sir C.V.Raman

Sir C V Raman

Sir.C.V. Raman, an Indian Scientist was awarded Nobel Prize of Physics in 1930 for his “Raman Effect” related to light.

Born: November 7, 1888, Thiruvanaikaval

Died: November 21, 1970, Bangalore

Education: Presidency College, Chennai, University of Madras

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Bharat Ratna, Lenin Peace Prize

3. Dr. Hargobind Khorana

Dr. Hargobind Khorana

Dr. Hargobind Khorana, an India’s Doctorate in Chemistry was awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968 for his study of the Human Genetic Code and its role in Protein Synthesis.

Born:January 9, 1922 Raipur, Punjab, British India

Died : November 9, 2011 (aged 89) Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.

Residence: India, United States, United Kingdom

Citizenship: United States

Fields : Molecular biology

Institutions: MIT (1970–2007), University of Wisconsin, Madison (1960–70), University of British, Columbia (1952–60), Cambridge University (1950–52), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (1948–49)

Alma mater: University of the Punjab University of Liverpool

Known for : First to demonstrate the role of nucleotides in protein synthesis

Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Medicine (1968), Gairdner Foundation International Award, Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Padma Vibhushan

4. Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is a Yogoslavian nun who became an Indian citizen. She was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979, for her service through her Charitable Mission “Nirmal Hriday” at Calcutta to people suffering from Leprosy and to those people dying in destitute.

5. Dr.Subramanian Chandrashekar

Dr.Subramanian Chandrashekar

Dr.Subramanian Chandrashekar, an Indian Astro-Physicist was awarded Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his theory on white dwarf stars’ limitation known as ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’.

Born : October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India

Died : August 21, 1995 (aged 84), Chicago, Illinois, United States

Residence : United States

Citizenship : India (1910–1953). United States (1953–1995)

Fields: Astrophysics

Institutions: University of Chicago, University of Cambridge

Alma mater : Presidency College, Madras

Trinity College, Cambridge

Doctoral advisor : R.H. Fowler, Arthur Stanley Eddington

Doctoral students : Donald Edward Osterbrock, Roland Winston, F. Paul Esposito, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Jerome Kristian

Known for : Chandrasekhar limit

Notable awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1983), Copley Medal (1984), National Medal of Science (1966), Padma Vibhushan (1968)

6. Dr.Amatya Sen

Dr.Amatya Sen

Dr.Amatya Sen, an Indian Professor in Economics was awarded Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in Economic Theory related to Poverty, Democracy, Development and Social Welfare.

Born : 3 November 1933 (age 79), Santiniketan, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day West Bengal, India)

Nationality : Indian

Institution: Harvard University, University of Cambridge

London School of Economics, Jadavpur University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University

University of Oxford, Delhi School of Economics

University of Calcutta, University of California, Berkeley

Stanford University,

Field : Welfare economics, development economics, ethics

Alma mater : Presidency College of the University of Calcutta (B.A.),

Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.)

Influenced by: Rabindranath Tagore, B. R. Ambedkar, John Maynard Keynes, John Rawls, Peter Bauer

John Stuart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Kenneth Arrow, Piero Sraffa, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Martha Nussbaum

Influenced : Mahbub ul Haq, Kaushik Basu, Jean Drèze, Martha Nussbaum, Kotaro Suzumura, Robin Hahnel, Ben Fine, Esther Duflo, Tony Atkinson, Nancy Folbre, Prajapati Trivedi

Contributions : Human development theory

Awards: Nobel Prize in Economics (1998), Bharat Ratna (1999), National Humanities Medal (2012)[3]

The following is a List of Nobel Prize Winners of Persons of Indian Origin and the Citizens of other countries or of Persons of other countries whos received the Nobel Prize for their works related to India:

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling, a British Poetr and Writer. And he has been awarded Nobel Prize for Literature for his works in Literature such as Poems and Short Stories related to India and Burma/ Myanmar.

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a British Writer of Indian Origin was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

In the Nobel Prize winners’ list of 2009, Dr.Venkataraman Ramakrishnan,

Dr.V Ramakrishnan - Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath,

Dr Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath

an Indo-American has shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with a co-American Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel for mapping ribosomes, the protein procucing factories within cells at the atomic level.