5. ABOUT HARGOBIND
KHORANA
HE WAS A BIOCHEMIST WHO
SHARED THE NOBLE PRIZE IN
PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE IN YEAR
1968 WITH MARSHALL W NIREBERG
AND ROBERT W HOLLEY.
HE WAS BORN IN BRITISH INDIA ,
WHICH WAS NOW A PART OF
PAKISTAN.
GOT PRIZE “For Interpretation Of
The Genetic Code And Its Function
In Protein Synthesis."
7. ABOUT VENKATRAMAN
RAMKRISHNAN
HE IS INDIAN BORN AMERICAN
AND BRITISH BIOLOGIST.
HE SHARED THE 2009 NOBLE PRIZE
IN CHEMISTRY WITH THOMAS A
STEITZ AND ADA E YONATH.
HE WAS AWARDED WITH INDIA’S
SECOND HIGHEST CIVILIAN
HONOUR , THE PADMA VIBHUSHAN
IN 2010.
9. ABOUT RABINDRANATH
TAGORE
HE WAS FIRST NON EUROPEAN TO
WIN THE NOBLE PRIZE IN
LITERATURE IN 1913 FOR HIS
COLLECTION OF POEMS – GITANJLI.
HIS COMPOSITIONS – JANA GANA
MANA AND AMAR SHONAR BANGLA
WERE CHOOSEN BY TWO NATIONS –
INDIA AND BANGLADESH – AS
THEIR NATIONAL ANTHEMS
RESPECTIVELY.
11. ABOUT SUBRAMANYAN
CHANDRASEKHAR
• HE WAS AN INDIAN AMERICAN
ASTROPHYSICIST WHO WITH
WILLIAM A FOWLER, WON THE1983
NOBLE PRIZE FOR PHYSICS.
• HE WAS THE NEPHEW OF SIR
CHANDRASEKHARA
VENKATARAMAN WHO WON NOBLE
PRIZE FOR PHYSICS IN 1930
13. ABOUT SAINT MOTHER
TERESA
SHE FOUNDED THE MISSIONARIES
OF CHARITY IN KOLKATA IN 1950.
SHE WAS THE RECIPIENT OF
NUMEROUS HONOURS INCLUDING
THE 1979 NOBLE PEACE AWARD.
SHE WAS DECLARED AS ‘SAINT’ BY
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN 2016.
15. ABOUT SIR CV RAMAN
HE WAS A INDIAN PHYSICIST
WHOSE WORK WAS VERY
HELPFUL IN GROWTH OF
SCIENCE IN INDIA.
HE WS RECIPIENT OF NOBLE
PRIZE FOR PHYSICS IN 1930.
HE WAS FIRST NON WHITE TO
RECEIVE ANY NOBLE PRIZE IN
SCIENCE.
17. ABOUT AMARTYA SEN
HE WAS INDIAN ECONOMIST WHO
WAS AWARDED THE 1998 NOBLE
MEMORIAL PRIZE IN ECNOMIC
SCIENCES.
IN 2012 HE BECAME THE FIRST
NON AMERICAN RECIPIENT OF
NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDAL
19. ABOUT KAILASH
SATYARTHI
HE IS AN INDIAN CHILDREN’S
RIGHT ADVOCATE AND ACTIVIST
AGAINST CHILD LABOUR.
HE WON NATIONAL PRIZE FOR
PEACE.
HE STARTED THE BACHPAN
BACHAO ANDOLAN IN 1980.
HE ACTED TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF
MORE THAN 83,000 CHILDREN
FROM 144 COUNTRIES.