Nobel Prize Winners From India

Winner	Year	Area	Work
Rabindranath Tagore	1913	Literature	Gitanjali, a collection of poems, described as “profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse”
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman	1930	Physics	Discovery of “inelastic scattering of light”, named Raman effect after him
Hargobind Khorana	1968	Medicine	Interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. He shared the prize with Robert W Holley and Marshall Warren Nirenberg
Mother Teresa	1979	Peace	The Albanian-born nun, who made India her home, won the prize for "work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace".
Subramanian Chandrasekhar	1983	Physics	Theoretical structure and evolution of stars. He shared the prize with William Alfred Fowler
Amartya Sen	1998	Economics	Welfare economics
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	2009	Chemistry	Mapping ribosomes, the protein-producing factories within cells, at the atomic level. He shares the prize with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath.