Indian Noble Prize Winners

Do you know that Mother Teresa worked in Calcutta, India. I didn't knew that until today. This provoked me to find some information about Indian Nobel prize winners.

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I discover that they were quite a lot. I will present them by chronology.

First of all let me tell you about the Nobel Prize itself. It was established by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish who was born in a family of engineers in Stockholm. During his life he made a fortune of his inventions. He is the inventor of the dynamite. In 1888 he read his own obituary in a newspaper. That made him think what he will leave behind. After that he changed his will. He sets a committee which had to give prizes to those who confer “the greatest benefit on mankind”.

The first Indian who won a Nobel prize was Rabindranath Tagore. He is India's most famous poet and writer. His award of course was for literature. He won with his work called “Geetanjali”. He is also the author of India's national anthem.

Chandrashekar Venkata Raman – he was a physicist. He won with his research about light's frequency. He explained why the light's frequency is changing when it is passing through a transparent.

Mother Teresa

Hargobind Khorana – He won Noble prize for medicine with his research about human genetic and it's role for the synthesis of protein in the human body. He was a native Indian but he studied and worked abroad.

Mother Teresa – she was born in Skopje, now in Macedonia. In 1928 she joined “The Irish order of the sisters of Loretto”. Her main work was in Calcutta where she got touched by the poverty of the people. She won Nobel eace prize in 1978.

Subramanian Chandrashekar – he explained the final stages of life of the stars and also created something called Chandrashekar limit. He won his prize in physics in 1983. An interesting fact about him is that he is a nephew to another Nobel Prize laureate- sir C.V. Raman.

The last of this row is Amartya Sen. He won a Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. With the development of India we can be sure that mr. Sen will not be the last Indian Nobel Prize winner.