The Indian Nobel Prize winners are...

October 10, 2014 14:48

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1930: Sir Venkata Raman for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1968: H. Gobind Khorana"for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis"

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913: Rabindranath Tagore"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"

The Prize in Economic Sciences 1998: Amartya Sen"for his contributions to welfare economics"

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014: Kailash Satyarthi "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education"

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