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Spectrum Chart - 218 : Nobel Prize Winners
1. Rabindranath Tagore (India) –
Rabindranath Tagore was also a philosopher and an artist. He wrote
many stories, novels, poems and dramas, as well as composing music
and many songs. In 1913, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the
first Asian to win this prize. Jana Gana Mana, the national anthem of
India, was written by Tagore.
2. Nelson Mandela (South Africa) - Nelson
Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary,
politician and philanthropist, who served as 1st black
President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. In 1962, he was
arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state and
sentenced to life imprisonment, hes served 27 years in prison. He won
the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993.
3. Amartya Sen (India) - Amartya Sen is an
Indian economist and philosopher. Amartya Sen has made contributions
to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social
justice, economic theories of famines and indexes of the measure of
well-being of citizens of developing countries. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 and Bharat Ratna in 1999 for
his work in welfare economics.
4. Aung San Suu Ki (Myanmar) - Aung San
Suu Kyi is a Burmese social democratic stateswoman, politician,
diplomat and author who serves as the First and incumbent State
Counsellor and Leader of the National League for Democracy. She
remained under house arrest for almost 15 of the 21 years from 1989
to 2010, becoming one of the world's most prominent political
prisoners. Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in
1991.
5. Dalai Lama (Tibet) - Tenzin Gyatso is
the current Dalai Lama. He is the 14th Dalai Lama. He has travelled
the world and has spoken about the welfare of Tibetans, environment,
economics, women's rights, non-violence, interfaith dialogue,
physics, astronomy, Buddhism and science. The 14th Dalai Lama
received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He currently lives in
Dharamsala in India
6. Mother Teresa (India) - Mother Teresa
was one of the great servants of humanity. She was an Albanian
Catholic nun who came to India and founded the Missionaries of
Charity in Kolkata. Her selfless work among the poverty-stricken
people of Kolkata is an inspiration for people all over the world and
she was honoured with Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
7. C.V. Raman (India) - Chandrasekhara
Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist, who carried out
ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, what now is
called the 'Raman Effect', which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for
Physics. In 1954, India honoured him with its highest civilian award,
the Bharat Ratna.
8. Yasser Arafat (Palestine) - Yasser
Arafat is best known as the first leader of the Palestinian people.
He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation from 1969 to
2004. In 1994 Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize. Arafat remains a
controversial figure. The majority of the Palestinian people -
regardless of political ideology or faction—viewed him as a heroic
freedom fighter and martyr who symbolised the national aspirations of
his people, while many Israelis have described him as an unrepentant
terrorist.
9. Henry Kissinger (USA) – Henry
Kissinger is an American diplomat and political scientist. He served
as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States
Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon
and Gerald Ford. For his actions negotiating the ceasefire in
Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize.
10. Mikhail Gorbachev (USSR) - Mikhail
Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last
leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the
party was dissolved. Gorbachev is known for forming a friendship with
President of the United States Ronald Reagan. Both of them would help
end the Cold War. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
11. Marie Curie (France) - Marie Curie was
a Polish and naturalised-French physicist, chemist and feminist who
conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She created a theory
of radioactivity, found different ways for separating radioactive
isotopes and discovered two new elements, radium and polonium. She
was also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize as well as the first
person to win two Nobel Prizes. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in
Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri
Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
12. Albert Einstein (USA) - Albert Einstein
was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general
theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
Einstein is well known for his theories about light, matter, gravity,
space and time. His most well known equation is E = mc2 .
It means that energy and mass are different forms of the same thing.
His theories of special and general relativity are of great
importance to many branches of physics and astronomy. He received the
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921.
13. S. Chandrashekhar (USA) - Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar, was an Indian American astrophysicist who was awarded
the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with William A. Fowler "for his
theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the
structure and evolution of the stars". His mathematical
treatment of stellar evolution yielded many of the best current
theoretical models of the later evolutionary stages of massive star
and black holes. The Chandrasekhar limit is named after him.
14. Desmond Tutu (South Africa) - Desmond
Tutu is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican
bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980's as an opponent of
apartheid. Since the demise of apartheid, has been active in the
defence of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the
oppressed. He has campaigned to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis,
poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia. He received the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
15. Lech Walesa (Poland) - Lech Wałęsa is
a retired Polish politician and labour activist. He co-founded and
headed Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union,
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and served as President of Poland
from 1990 to 1995. He presided over Poland's transition from
communism to a post-communist state.
16. Bertrand Russell (Great Britain) -
Bertrand Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, historian,
mathematician, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel
laureate. Russell was a prominent anti-war activist, he championed
anti-imperialism and went to prison for his pacifism during World War
I. Later, he campaigned against Adolf Hitler, then criticised
Stalinist totalitarianism, attacked the involvement of the United
States in the Vietnam War. In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel
Prize in Literature.
17. Anwar Sadat (Egypt) - Anwar Sadat was
the third President of Egypt. He served from 15 October 1970 until he
was assassinated by Islamic extremists on 6 October 1981. In 1978,
after the Camp David Accords, he signed a peace treaty with Israel.
This won him the Nobel Peace Prize, but made him very unpopular among
other Arabs who did not support peace with Israel. The peace treaty
was also one of the primary factors that led to his assassination.
18. Wilhelm Rontgen (Germany) – Wilhelm
Conrad Rontgen was a German engineer and physicist, who, on 8
November 1895, produced & detected electromagnetic radiation in a
wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement
that earned him Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. He was the first
person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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