From 1913 to 2014:Indian Nobel Prize Winners

Rabindranath Tagore was the only Indian Nobel literature laureate. In 1913, In his acceptance speech, he said

Sir C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for his work in the field of light scattering. This effect is now named after him — the Raman scattering. In his speech, he said he was inspired by the

Hargobind Khorana (Far right) shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968, with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley by showing the the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids. In his speech, he thanked

S. Chandrasekhar, along with William A. Fowler won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for their mathematical theory of black holes. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him. In his speech, he quoted Tagore's Gitanjali and said

Again a first and only, Amartya Sen won The Prize in Economics in 1998. In his speech, which he began with 

Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace prize in 1979. In a lecture played on the day of the ceremony, 

Kailash Satyarthi who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 at his Bachpan Bachao Aandolan office soon after announcement of the prize, in New Delhi. An avid follower of Gandhian philosophy,