2.  What is a Nobel Prize?
 List of Nobel Laureates of India
 Brief Description of the Laureates

3.  The Nobel Prize is a set of annual
international awards bestowed in a
number of categories by Swedish
and Norwegian committees in
recognition of cultural and/or
scientific advances.
 The will of the Swedish inventor
Alfred Nobel established the prizes
in 1895.
 The prizes in Physics, Chemistry,
Physiology or Medicine, Literature,
and Peace were first awarded in
1901.

4.  Rabindranath Tagore
 C. V. Raman
 Mother Teresa
 Amartya Sen
 Hargobind Khorana
 Subramanayam Chandrasekhar

5.  He was awarded with the “Nobel Prize” for
Literature for his work in “GEETANJALI”. It is a
composition of 103 poems originally written in
Bengali and later translated into English by
Rabindranath Tagore itself in 1912. He became the
first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize.
 He was born in 1861 in Kolkata. He is the founder of
a small experimental school at Shantineketan
(Abode of peace) a place 180 km away from Kolkata.
In 1951 it was renamed as Vishwa Bharati University.
 He was a poet dramatist, novelist, painter,
philosopher and later he was the author of the
National Anthem. The British Government knighted
him with the title, which he returned in 1919 in
protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

6.  Sir C. V. Raman was the recipient of the “Nobel Prize” in
1930 for the excellence of his work in the field of Physics.
He was the founder of the Indian Journal of PHYSICS
and thereafter the Indian Academy Of Science. For his
achievements, he received many Awards and Honours
including the title of ‘Sir’.
 He was born in Tamil Nadu. After the completion of the
Master’s Degree in Physics at Presidency College,
Chennai in 1907, he joined as a Professor of Physics at
the University of Kolkata in1917. in 1934 he moved to the
Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore as Head of the
Department of Physics.
 He proposed a Theory relating to the Scattering of Light
popularly known as “Raman Effect”. His Theory
discovered in 1928 explains the frequency of light
passing through a Transparent medium. He was
honoured as Bharat Ratna in 1954.

7.  Dr. Hargobind Khorana shared “Nobel Prize” in
Medicine in 1968 with Marshall W. Nirenberg
and Robert W. Holley for their contribution to
understand the “Genetic Code” and how it
works in the cell. Dr. Hargobind Khorana was
born in Punjab now in Pakistan.
 He studied in Punjab University at Lahore and
at the University of Liverpool England on
Government Scholarships. He obtained his PhD
Degree in Chemistry from the University of
Liverpool in 1948. he started research on Nucleic
Acid during the Fellowship in the Cambridge
University of Columbia, Canada,
Wisconsin/USA.

8.  Mother Teresa was awarded the “Noble
Peace Prize” in 1971 in recognition efforts.
She is the recipient of 50 International
and National Awards including Pope John
Paul XXII Peace Prize in 1971 and “Bharat
Ratna” in 1980.
 Mother Teresa (The God Mother)was born
in Skopje, now in Yugoslavia on 1910 and
was named as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. At
the early age of 18 she decided to become a
‘nun’. She went to Dublin and joined the
“Irish Order” of the sister’s of Loreto in
1928 and she came to India in 1929 at
Kolkata. She became an Indian Citizen in
1948 and laid a foundation of
Missionaries of Charity in 1950 for her
deep concern for poor and sick people.

9.  Dr, Subramanayam Chandrasekhar was honoured for
his excellence in the field of Physics and shared his
award with William Alfred Fowler in 1983, he was
popularly known for his theory “Chandrashekhar
Limit” based on white dwarf stars which determines
the minimum mass of a dying star which enables it to
survive. He wrote several books on Astrophysics. He
was behind to develop “The Mathematical Theory of
Black Holes”. He completed his education at
Presidency College, Chennai and at Trinity College,
Cambridge.
 He was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan. He was the
nephew of Sir C. V. Raman. From a period of 1930, he
held a position at trinity College. Later he joined the
University of Chicago and became US citizen in 1953.
he was always remembered for his work.

10.  Dr. Amartya Sen was awarded Nobel Prize in Economics, for
his excellence and work in the field of “Economics” for his
contribution to “Welfare Economics”. He was the first Asian to
receive a Nobel Prize for Economics. He was the recipient of
the most prestigious award “Bharat Ratna” in 1999.
 Dr. Amartya Sen was born and brought up in Shantineketan
and educated at Presidency College, Kolkata. For further
studies he went to Trinity College (Cambridge) where he
completed his BA, MA and PhD. After that Dr. Amartya Sen
taught Economics in the renowned Universities in India and
in England including Delhi University, London School of
Economics, University of London and Oxford University. He is
popularly known for his work on the nature of poverty and the
major cause of the famine. He devised methods of measuring
poverty.