INDIA'S LAUREATES

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1998 Economics

AMARTYA SEN for his contributions to welfare economics.

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1983 Physics

SUBRAMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars.

The prize was divided equally between S.CHANDRASEKHAR and WILLIAM A. FOWLER for his theoretical and experimental studies of the nuclear reactions of importance in the formation of the chemical elements in the universe.

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1979 Peace

MOTHER TERESA, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta, India.
Note: Though Mother Teresa spent most of her life in India she was originally from Kosovo.

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1968 Physiology and Medicine

HAR GOBIND KHORANA, awarded jointly with ROBERT W. HOLLEY and MARSHALL W. NIRENBERG for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.

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1930 Physics

SIR CHANDRASEKHARA VENKATA RAMAN for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him.

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1913 Literature

RABINDRANATH TAGORE because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with comsummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West.

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