- History of Nobel Prize.
- Indian Nobel Prize laureates.
- Nobel Prize laureates in 2023
History of Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel.
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist most famously known for the invention of dynamite. He died in 1896. In his will, he bequeathed all of his “remaining realizable assets” to be used to establish five prizes which became known as “Nobel Prizes”.
Nobel Prizes are given to the people from 5 fields i.e. Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace
Each recipient receives a green gold medal plated with 24 karat gold, a diploma, and a monetary award as per the current year.
Indian Nobel laureates
Rabindranath Tagore
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Teresa Bojaxhiu, M.C.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is a Bengali Poet awarded the Prestigious Nobel Prize in the year of 1913 for Literature.
His contribution towards literature is Gitanjali. He translated it from Bengali to English.
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970) is a Physicist from Tiruchirappalli, Bangalore, Karnataka.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930 for his contribution towards Physics well known as “Raman Effect”. He had worked on the scattering of light and discovered the effect named after him.
Nobel laureates in 2023
- Physics – Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. Their contribution is experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
- Chemistry – Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov. Their contribution is the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
- Physiology or Medicine – Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Their contribution is their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
- Literature – Jon Fosse . His contribution is his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable
- Peace Prize – Narges Mohammadi. Their contribution is her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Claudia Goldin. His contribution is having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes