At a Glance: Indians who won Nobel Prize before Kailash Satyarthi

New Delhi: India has always been widely acclaimed for its aptitude in various fields be it music, literature, science or any other area. The recent success of ISRO's Mars Mission in its first attempt has created a record which was highly applauded by the entire worldISRO's Mars Mission is just one example of India's potential. India is thrilled to know that Kailash Satyarthi has been awarded Nobel Peace Prize for 2014. Satyarthi is the first India-born person to win Nobel Peace prize although Mother Teresa was the first Indian citizen to win Nobel peace prize.Satyarthi is the 7th Indian to win Nobel prize. Before him, 6 Indians have been awarded Nobel Prize.Here we are compiling the list of. all Indians who won Nobel Prize before Kailash Satyarthi: Rabindranath TagoreBorn on 7th May 1861, Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to win the Nobel Peae Prize.A Bengali Scholar, Rabindranath Tagore played a very important role in reshaping the Bengali literature.Rabindranath Tagore who started writing poetry at the very young age of as eight years, modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures.Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are some of the best-known works of Rabindranath Tagore.Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.Rabindranath Tagore composed and scored the national anthem of India “Jana Gana Mana, first sung in Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress on 27 December 1911. C. V. Raman Born at Thiruvanaikaval, near Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, C. V. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.C. V Raman was awarded the prize for his outstanding work in the field of light scattering.He discovered that, when light traverses a transparent material, some of the deflected light changes in wavelength. This phenomenon was named after C.V Raman.He was also deeply interested in the physiology of the human eye.C. V. Raman was also honored with the highest civilian award in India, the Bharat Ratna Award in 1954.Raman also headed the the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. Hargobind Khorana An Indian-American biochemist, Hargobind Khorana, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1968 and shared it with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids.Born in Raipur, Hargobind Khorana left India in 1945 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1966. He also received the National Medal of Science the same year.He was also a member of the Board of Scientific Governors at The Scripps Research Institute.He continued to head a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, until his death in 2011. Mother Teresa Mother Teresa has been widely admired for her charitable services for which she devoted her entire life.She was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian origin. she founded the Missionaries of Charity which runs as homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools.The primary task of the Missionaries was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after.Mother Teresa also spend years in the slums of Kolkata taking care of the poor people there.She was warded the Nobel Peace Prize 1979 in recognition of her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity."Mother Teresa breathed her last on 5th September 1997. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Born in Lahore, Punjab, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, was the nephew of Indian physicist and Nobel laureate C. V. Raman.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983, for his mathematical theory of black holes, which was a key discovery that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars.He also served as editor of The Astrophysical Journal from 1952 to 1971.He served on the University of Chicago faculty from 1937 until his death in 1995 at the age of 84. Amartya Sen An Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, was born 3 November 1933. He has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines.He has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1972.He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his work in welfare economics.He serves as the chancellor of Nalanda University and is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Kailash Satyarthi An Indian children's rights activist, Kailash Satyarthi has won. 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.Kailash Satyarthi, is working as an activist for children's rights and children education and has also founded the Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980.He has also been involved with the Global March Against Child Labor and its international advocacy body, the International Center on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE).He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this year, along with with Pakistani girl activist Malala Yousufzai, "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".The Nobel Prize was established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel, and awarded the first prize in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

At a Glance: Indians who won Nobel Prize before Kailash Satyarthi

New Delhi: India has always been widely acclaimed for its aptitude in various fields be it music, literature, science or any other area. The recent success of ISRO's Mars Mission in its first attempt has

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