Prelims: Current events of national and international importance | Awards
Awardees |
Categories & Year |
Purpose |
Rabindranath Tagore |
(Literature, 1913) |
Awarded for Gitanjali, a collection of poems that brought Indian spirituality and lyricism to world literature. With this, Tagore became the first Asian Nobel laureate. |
CV Raman |
(Physics, 1930) |
Honoured for discovering the Raman Effect, explaining how light changes wavelength when it passes through a transparent material. |
Har Gobind Khorana |
(Physiology or Medicine, 1968) |
Shared the prize for decoding how genetic information in DNA controls protein synthesis. He also built the world’s first synthetic gene. |
Mother Teresa |
(Peace, 1979) |
Recognised for her humanitarian work through the Missionaries of Charity, caring for the poor and sick in Kolkata. |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
(Physics, 1983) |
Awarded for his theory on the structure and evolution of stars, including the “Chandrasekhar limit.” |
Amartya Sen |
(Economic Sciences, 1998) |
Honoured for his contributions to welfare economics and his “capability approach” to measuring poverty and development. |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
(Chemistry, 2009) |
Shared the prize for mapping the atomic structure of the ribosome, a discovery crucial to medical science. |
Kailash Satyarthi |
(Peace, 2014) |
Recognised for his decades-long fight against child labour and advocacy for children’s education. |
Abhijit Banerjee |
(Economic Sciences, 2019) |
Shared the prize for pioneering the use of field experiments to study and reduce global poverty. |
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