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Nobel Prize
▸ The Nobel Prizes are given under the will of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who died in 1896. He was a noted Swedish chemist and engineer, who discovered Nitroglycerine and its use in the manufacture of dynamite.
▸ Nobel Prizes are given each year in the six fields. The Nobel Prizes for Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Literature were started in 1901. The Nobel Prize for Economics was started in 1968.
Indian Nobel Laureates
Rabindranath Tagore | Literature (Gitanjali) | 1913 |
CV Raman | Physics (Raman Effect) | 1930 |
Har Gobind Khorana (of Indian Descent) | Medicine (Genetic Code) | 1968 |
Mother Teresa | Peace | 1979 |
Subramaniyan Chandrasekhar (of Indian Descent) | Physics (Chandrasekhar’s Limit) | 1983 |
Amartya Sen | Economics (Welfare Economics) | 1998 |
Sir VS Naipaul (of Indian Descent) | Literature | 2001 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (of Indian Descent) | Chemistry (Ribosomes) | 2009 |
Kailash Satyarthi | Peace (Struggle against Child Labour) | 2014 |
Winners of Nobel Prize More than Once
Marie Curie | 1903 (Physics), 1911 (Chemistry) | |
Linus Pauling | 1954 (Chemistry), 1962 (Peace) | |
Frederick Sanger | 1958, 1980 (Chemistry) | |
International Committee of Red Cross | 1917, 1944, 1963 (Peace) | |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | 1954, 1981 (Peace) |
Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Women Nobel Peace Prize Winners Bertha Von Suttner 1905 | Aung San Suu Kyi | 1991 | ||
Jane Addams | 1931 | Rigoberta Menchu | 1992 | |
Emily Greene Balch | 1946 | Joddy Williams | 1997 | |
Betty Williams | 1976 | Shirin Ebadi | 2003 | |
Mairead Coarrigan | 1976 | Wangari Maathai | 2004 | |
Mother Teresa | 1979 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbower Tawakkol Kormor | 2011 | |
Alya Myrdal 1982 | Malala Yousafzai | 2014 | ||
Nobel Peace Prize Winning Organisation
Permanent International Peace Bureau | 1910 |
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) | 1917, 1944, 1963 |
Nansen International office for Refugees | 1938 |
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | 1954, 1981 |
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) | 1965 |
International Labour Organisation (ILO) | 1969 |
Amnesty International | 1977 |
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War | 1985 |
United Nations Peace-keeping Forces | 1988 |
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | 1995 |
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) | 1997 |
Medicins Sans Frontiers | 1999 |
United Nations | 2001 |
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) | 2005 |
Grameen Bank (Bangladesh) | 2006 |
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | 2007 |
European Union | 2012 |
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) | 2013 |
Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet | 2015 |
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapon (ICAN) | 2017 |