List of Nobel Laureates by Country Who Changed the World

The Nobel Prizes are often considered the most important achievement in the discipline in which they are awarded. The Nobel Prize trivia will reveal that the prizes were named after Alfred Nobel. Nobel was the inventor and chief executive of Dynamite. He also worked in the destruction and weapon industry. He wanted to leave behind something more positive than his achievements while alive, so he left a substantial portion of his wealth to trust with specific instructions about the awards he desired to be established in his honour. In this post, we will highlight the prominent list of Nobel laureates by country.

Alfred Nobel’s Vision

Alfred Nobel left five awards to recognise achievements in different fields. The money he left behind was used to pay a monetary award to the winners. It currently amounts to over a million dollars. A Nobel Prize quiz shows the prizes established by the wills of Nobel as the prize in medicine, physics, literature, chemistry and the peace prize. A second prize, the Economics prize, was later added, but it is not an official Nobel prize.

History

The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm administers the international prize and awards each year in each category. Since 1968, the Economics category has been relatively new. Each prize includes a medal, personal certificate, diploma, and cash.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1883-1896), an 18th-century Swedish technologist, left the Nobel Foundation. He was known for his invention of dynamite and for his work as an engineer, chemist. Alfred Nobel amassed considerable wealth during his lifetime. In his will and testament, he established the Nobel Foundation. This may be in response to an incorrect obituary published in France that criticised him for inventing dynamite, which was then only useful during wartime. Nobel is believed to have founded the Foundation to leave a better legacy.

List of Nobel Laureates by Country

This article only includes the Nobel prize list by the country that has won more than 20 prizes.

Here's a list of countries that were recipients and the number of prizes they received:

Indian Nobel Prize Winners- List of Nobel Prize Winners by Country

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, in Bengali known as Rabindranath Thakur, was born May 7, 1861, in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. He was a Bengali poet, short story writer, song composer and playwright. He also introduced new prose forms and colloquial language to Bengali literature. This freed it from the traditional Sanskrit models. His influence was significant in introducing Indian culture into the West and vice-versa. He is widely regarded as being the greatest creative artist of the 20th century. Rabindranath Tagore was the first-ever Asian or a non-European recipient who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He was the son of Debendranath Tagore (religious reformer). He began writing verses at an early age and returned to India after completing his studies in England in the late 1870s.

C. V. Raman

C.V. Raman, in full, Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888-1970), was an Indian physicist whose contributions were instrumental in India's growth. In 1930, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery that light can be deflected through transparent materials. Raman scattering is now known as Raman scattering. It is the result of the Raman effect.

Raman was awarded a master's degree by Presidency College, the University of Madras in Physics, in 1907. He then became an accountant in India's finance department. After this, he started teaching Physics at the University of Calcutta. He discovered that light scattering in different substances could be studied by 1928. These energies are known as Raman frequencies. They correspond to transitions between different vibrational and rotational states in the scattering materials.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa, now known as St. Teresa from Calcutta, was originally known as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (baptised August 27th 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. She was also called St. Teresa of Calcutta). Mother Teresa is the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. Numerous honours were bestowed upon her, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace.

Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen (born November 3, 1933, in Santiniketan in India) was an Indian economist who won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He was recognised for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory and his concern for the needs of the poorest members of society. Sen is best remembered for his research on the causes and solutions to food shortages and causes of famine.

Kailash Satyarthi

Kailash Satyarthi, originally known as Kailash Sharma, was an Indian social reformer who pushed for the universal right to education and fought against child labour in India and other nations. He was the co-recipient, in 2014, of the Nobel Peace Prize along with Malala Yousafzai (a teenage Pakistani education advocate), "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young persons and for the right to all children to educate."

Har Gobind

Har Gobind Khorana (January 9, 1922, in Raipur, India now Raipur and Pakistan – November 9, 2011, in Concord, Massachusetts) was an Indian nationalist who lived from 1922 to 2011. In 1968, he created history by being presented with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His research contributed to the understanding of how nucleotides in nucleic acid, which contain a cell's genetic code, influence the cell's production.

Khorana was born into a low-income family. He was awarded government scholarships to study at the University of Punjab (now Pakistan) as well as the University of Liverpool in England. In 1948, he received his PhD at Liverpool. His fellowship supervisor at the University of Cambridge in 1951, Sir Alexander Todd, provided him with the opportunity to study nucleic acid. He received scholarships and professorships from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland, the University of Wisconsin in the United States, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Canada (1960-70). He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1971. He was employed there until 2007, after which he retired.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan,  on October 19, 1910, and died on August 21, 1995, in Chicago. Illinois, U.S.A.). He was an Indian-American astrophysicist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics for his key discoveries that led us to our current accepted theory about the evolution of massive stars.

Venki Ramakrishnan

Venki Ramakrishnan was an Indian-born molecular biologist, physicist, and biochemist. He was also awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with American biophysicist Thomas Steitz and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath for their research on the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called Ribosomes. (Ribosomes, which are small particles of RNA and protein that are involved in protein synthesis, are either found free or bound to cells' endoplasmic retina. Ramakrishnan was a dual citizen of the United States and Great Britain.

Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit, also known as Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born February 21, 1961, in Mumbai, India), was an Indian-American economist who, along with Esther Duflo, and Michael Kremer, received the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics (the Sveriges Riker Prize in Economics in Economic Sciences in Memory Alfred Nobel) for their innovative approach to alleviating poverty around the world.

Did you know?

Between 1901 and 2018, 935 Nobel Laureates received a total of 590 Nobel Awards. All Nobel Laureates in all categories of the prize were on average 60 years old between 1901-1917.