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Nobel Prize Winners 2014

The Nobel Prize in Physics

Isamu Akasaki

Jan. 30, 1929 (age 85)

Japan

Hiroshi Amano

September 11, 1960 (age 54)

Japan

Shuji Nakamura

22 May, 1954 (age 60)

USA

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Eric Betzig

January 13, 1960 (age 54)

USA

Stefan W. Hell

23 December 1962 (age 51)

Germany

William E. Moerner

June 24, 1953 (age 61)

USA

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

John O’Keefe

18 November, 1939 (age 74)

American-British

May-Britt Moser

4 January, 1963 (age 51)

Norway

Edvard I. Moser

27 April, 1962 (age 52)

Norway

 The Nobel Peace Prize

Kailash Satyarthi

11 January 1954 (age 60)

India

Malala Yousafzai

12 July 1997 (age 17)

Pakistan

 
 The Nobel Prize in Literature

Patrick Modiano

30 July, 1945 (age 69)

France

NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS OF INDIA (YESTERYEARS)

Rabindranath Tagore

(7 May 1861- 7 Aug 1941)

Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1913

Sir C.V.Raman

(7 Nov 1888 - 21 Nov 1970)

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930

Har Gobind Khorana

(1922–2011)

Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1968

Mother Teresa

(26 Aug 1910 - 5 Sept 1997)

Nobel Peace Prize 1979

Amartya Sen

(born 3 Nov.1933)

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1998

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

(19 Oct 1910-21 Aug 1995)

Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Born 1952

Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009

   

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist, trained chemical engineer, inventor and armaments manufacturer instated the Nobel Prize in his will to be given in five different categories – Physics, Chemistry, Medicine/Physiology, Literature and Peace. As per his wishes, the awardees are selected by a committee of five members chosen by the Norwegian Parliament.

Ever since 1901, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year, with a few exceptions, to deserving candidates who in the preceding year “shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”

NO NOBEL FOR BAPU

In spite of having been nominated five times between 1937 to 1948, Gandhiji was never conferred with the Peace Prize.In 2006, the Secretary of Norwegian Nobel Committee Geir Lundestad acknowledged the error by stating that “The greatest omission in our 106 year history is undoubtedly that Mahatma Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace prize. Gandhi could do without the Nobel Peace prize, whether Nobel committee can do without Gandhi is the question”. After his death in 1948, the then

Nobel Committee did try to make amends by giving no award that year with the reason that “there was no suitable living candidate”.

The only Indian to have received it before Kailash Satyathi(2014) was Mother Teresa(1979) for her grassroot level work with the slum dwellers of India and establishing the Missionaries of Charity.