Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Nobel Laureats of Indian Origin or Citizenship

India has produced quite a few Nobel Laureats over the years.
This year, not least due to the celebration of his 150th birthday, Rabindranath Tagore may be the first one that comes to mind, but there are many others. (And of the Nobel Laureats over the years that are NOT of Indian origin or citizenship, quite a few have had strong ties to India nonetheless, through their reseach, or because of personal interests in the country.)

1902 Ronald Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1907 Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1913 Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1930 Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
1968 Hargobind Khorana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
1998 Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
2001 V.S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
2009 Venkatraman "Venki" Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Sweden has also produced a number of Nobel Laureats. The latest in the line is Arvid Carlsson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in year 2000.

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