The Nobel Prize and India
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1913 Rabindranath Tagore, the author of "Gitanjali" became the first non European to win the Nobel prize for Literature.
1930 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman an Indian Physicist who was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics.
1968 Har Gobind Khorana , an Indian American biochemist was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine.
1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel peace prize. She was a Roman Catholic missionary and an Indian citizen of Albanian origin who lived for most of her life in India.
1983 Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, an Indian American astrophysicist was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics.
1998 Amartya Sen , a professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, received the Nobel prize for economics.
2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry
2014 Kailash Satyarthi, Indian child rights activist, along with Pakistani child rights activist Malala Yousafzai, was jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2014. Satyarthi gave up his career as an electrical engineer over three decades ago to start Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Childhood Movement.
