The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in
Memory of Alfred Nobel
1998
"for his
contributions to welfare economics"
Amartya
Sen
India
Trinity College
Cambridge, United Kingdom
b. 1933
The Nobel Prize in Literature
1913
"because of his
profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with
consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his
own English words, a part of the literature of the West"
Rabindranath
Tagore
India
b. 1861
d. 1941
The Nobel Prize in Physics
1930
"for his work on the
scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after
him"
Sir
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
India
Calcutta
University
Calcutta, India
b. 1888
d. 1970
The Nobel Peace Prize
1979
Mother Teresa
India
Leader of
Missionaries of Charity, Calcutta
b. 1910
(in Skoplje, then Turkey)
d. 1997
The Nobel Prize in Physics
1983 1983
"for
his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to
the structure and evolution of the stars"
Subramanyan
Chandrasekhar
1/2 of the
prize
USA
University of
Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
b. 1910
(in Lahore, India)
d. 1995
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1968
"for their
interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein
synthesis"
