Nobel Prize
The Nobel
Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of
categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of cultural
and/or scientific advances. The will of
the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel established the prizes in
1895. The prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or
Medicine, Literature, and Peace were first awarded in 1901. The
related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was created in
1968. The Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway, while the other prizes
are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as
the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine,
physics, chemistry, peace, and economics.
Nobel Prize Winners of
Indian born and Indian Citizen:
1) Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941):
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "Gitanjali" in
1913.
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He founded “Shantiniketan”, which
later became Viswa Bharati University.
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Rabindranath Tagore was the first
Indian to win Nobel Prize.
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Tagore wrote and composed the
national anthem too.
2) Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 1888 – 21 November
1970):
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Dr. Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
won the Nobel Prize for Physics
for his "RAMAN" effect in 1930.
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Every year on 28 February National
science day is celebrated to commemorate the discovery of Raman effect.
