9 Indian Nobel Laureates who made India Proud

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was conferred with Nobel Prize in the category of literacy in 1913 for his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse

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CV Raman

CV Raman won Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 and was the first Asian to receive a Nobel Prize in any branch of science

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Har Govind Khurana

An Indian-American Biochemist he was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physiology or Medicine in 1968 

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was the first Indian women to be conferred with the Nobel Prize in the category of Peace in 1979. Her humanitarian work led to the establishment of Missionaries of Charity

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Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in the field of Physics in 1983 for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars

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Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998 in the field of Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 in the field of Chemistry for his work in studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

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Kailash Satyarthi

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2014 in the field of Peace for his struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

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Abhijit Banerjee

He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their experimental approach to eliminating global poverty along with wife Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer

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