Nobel prize winners in india

On Monday afternoon, Abhijit Banerjee along with his wife Esther Duflo and economist Michael Kremer became the recipients for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics. They were awarded the recognition for “their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” The Indian-born American Banerjee studied in Kolkata’s Presidency College and completed his MA in economics from JNU in Delhi. His parents were both professors in economics in Kolkata. Abhijit Banerjee On Monday afternoon, Abhijit Banerjee along with his wife Esther Duflo and economist Michael Kremer became the recipients for the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics. They were awarded the recognition for “their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” The Indian-born American Banerjee studied in Kolkata’s Presidency College and completed his MA in economics from JNU in Delhi. His parents were both professors in economics in Kolkata. The predecessor to Banerjee of being an Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Economics is Amartya Sen. Sen won the award in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. Sen was born in Shantiniketan in West Bengal. Interestingly, Sen was given his name by another Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, who was a close associate of his maternal grandfather. Sen too had graduated from Presidency College, before becoming a professor in Jadavpur University in Kolkata. He had then gone on to teach at institutions like Trinity College, London School of Economics and many more. Amartya Sen The predec...

The 2020 Nobel Prizes award week started on Monday with the announcement of the winner of the field of physiology or medicine. The Nobel prize, which was started in 1901, is awarded for the outstanding work in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace, physiology or medicine and economics. From Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 to Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee in 2020, there are 10 Indian Nobel prize winners so far who have made the country feel proud. Abhijit Banerjee has won the Nobel prize for his outstanding work in economics last year. Here are the Indian names who made it to the list of the most prestigious award winners 1. Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (2020) - Economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee won the most prestigious award on Monday with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and another American economist Michael Kremer for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". He is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. 2. Kailash Satyarthi (2014) - Kailash Satyarthi along with Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education." He is a member of the UNESCO and works towards providing ‘Education for All’. 3. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009) - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome...

Nobel Prize winners are often seen as the most prominent and influential people in their fields. It gives them a chance to be recognized by the world for their remarkable achievements. The list of Indian Nobel Prize winners contains an inspiring mix of innovators, scientists, laureates, and humanitarian activists who have made a substantial difference in the world. • • • • • • • • • • • • List of Indian Nobel Prize Winners SR No. Year Laureate Born Field 1 1902 Ronald Ross 13 May 1857 Almora, Uttarakhand, British India Physiology or Medicine 2 1907 Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 Malabar Hill,Bombay, British India Literature 3 1913 Rabindranath Tagore 7 May 1861 Kolkata, West Bengal, British India Literature 4 1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 7 November 1888 Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, British India Physics 5 1968 Har Gobind Khorana 9 January 1922 Raipur, Punjab, British India Physiology or Medicine 6 1979 Teresa Bojaxhiu,M.C. 26 August 1910 Skopje, North Macedonia Peace 7 1983 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 19 October 1910 Lahore, Punjab, British India Physics 8 1998 Amartya Kumar Sen 3 November 1933 Santiniketan,Bolpur, West Bengal, British India Economics 9 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan 1 April 1952 Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India Chemistry 10 2014 Kailash Satyarthi 11 January 1954 Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India Peace 11 2019 Abhijit Banerjee 21 February 1961 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Economics 1. Ronald Ross Ronald Ross was a British physician, born in British Ind...

“The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy” Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach “The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy” Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022

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First instituted in 1901, the On 1 December 1999, the Norwegian Nobel Committee confirmed that Laureates [ ] Two of the Nobel laureates (Tagore and Raman) were citizens of Year Image Laureate Born Died Field Citation 1902 13 May 1857 16 September 1932 Physiology or Medicine "for his work on 30 December 1865 18 January 1936 Literature "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author." 7 May 1861 7 August 1941 Literature "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West." 1930 7 November 1888 21 November 1970 Physics "for his work on the 1968 9 January 1922 9 November 2011 Physiology or Medicine "for their interpretation of the (awarded together with American biochemists 1979 26 August 1910 5 September 1997 Peace "for her work for bringing help to suffering humanity." 1983 19 October 1910 21 August 1995 Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and (awarded together with American astrophysicist 1998 3 November 1933 Economics "for his contributions to 2009 1 April 1952 Chemistry ""for studies of the structure and function of the (awarded together with American biochemist 11 January 1954 Peace "for their struggle against the suppression ...