New Delhi: Indian-origin MIT professor Abhijit Banerjee, his wife and one-time Ph.D. student Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer have been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics for their work which has “dramatically improved ability to fight poverty in practice”.
Here are Indian Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore: He won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for ‘Gitanjali’. Later, he was awarded a Knighthood by King George V. However, he renowned after Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
C. V. Raman: In 1930, he won Nobel Prize for Physics. He was the first Asian to win this award.
Later, the Indian government honoured him with the Bharat Ratna award.
Har Gobind Khorana: He shared Nobel Prize for Physiology with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley in 1968.
He became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1966.
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