Nobel Prize Winners in India

S.No	Name	Year	Specialization	Other Info
1.	RABINDRANATH TAGORE	1913	Literature	Popularly known as Gurudev, India's most famous writer and poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913. Tagore was also involved in teaching. In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University.
2.	CHANDRASHEKAR VENKATA RAMAN(C.V.RAMAN)	1930	Physics	Born at Thiruvanaikkaval in Tamil Nadu, Raman studied at Presidency College, Madras. Later, he served as Professor of Physics at Calcutta University. C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for an important research in the field of optics (light). Raman had found that diffused light contained rays of other wavelengths-what is now popularly known as Raman Effect. His theory explains why the frequency of light passing through a transparent medium changes.
3.	HARGOBIND KHORANA	1968	Medicine	Dr. Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He went abroad to get his doctorate in Chemistry and later settled there. It was his study of the human genetic code and the role it plays in protein synthesis that got him the Nobel Prize.
4.	MOTHER TERESA	1979	Peace	Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje, now in Yugoslavia. She wanted to become a nun and joined the Irish order of the Sisters of Loretto (at Dublin) in 1928. It is as a nun that Agnes came Calcutta in 1929. Here she was extremely touched by the misery of the poor and the sick. She decided to dedicate her life to serving them. She then founded a group of similar minded people called the Missionaries of Charity and set up Nirmal Hriday a center where she took care of the dying, the lepers and other people who had been left alone on the streets of Calcutta to die. Today her group has centers all over the world.
5.	SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR	1983	Physics	Dr S. Chandrashekar, is an Indian-born astrophysicist (a branch of astronomy or the study of space). After studying at the Presidency College in Madras, Dr. Chandrashekhar went to the United States for work and settled there. He has written many books on his field Astrophysics and Stellar Dynamics. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars forecasts the limit of mass that dwarf stars can have. This limit is known as the Chandrashekar Limit. His theory also explains the final stages of the evolution of stars.
6.	AMARTYA SEN	1998	Economics	Prof. Amartya Sen is the first Asian to win the Economics Nobel. He is one of the most respected economics thinker in the world. He is also an excellent teacher. He won the Nobel for his work in the area of economic theory. Some of his most important work is in the areas of poverty, democracy, development and social welfare. Rudyard Kipling (Literature 1907) Ronald Ross (Medicine 1902)
7.	VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN	2009	Bio-Chemistry	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan was born in Chidambaram in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India. He moved to Baroda (Vadodara) in Gujarat state at the age of three, where he had his schooling, except for spending 1960-61 in Adelaide, Australia. Following his Pre-Science at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, he did his undergraduate studies in the same university on a National Science Talent Scholarship, graduating with a B.Sc. in Physics in 1971. Immediately after graduation he moved to the U.S.A., where he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Ohio University in 1976.[6][7][8] He then spent two years studying biology as a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego while making a transition from theoretical physics to biology.

Supreme Court of India

Supreme Court of India
Established	28-Jan-1950
Location	New Delhi
Authorized by	Constitution of India
Judge term length	65 Years of age
Number of positions	31
Chief Justice of India	K. G. Balakrishnan Since (14-Jan-2007)
The current president of the SCBA(supreme Court Bar Association)	Mr. P.H. Parekh.
The first woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court was Justice	Fatima Beevi in 1987
Other Womens to be appointed to the Supreme Court was Justice	1.Sujata Manohar 2. Ruma Pal
First chief justice of supreme court of india	harilal kania or H. J. Kania