Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature is among the leading personalities of Modern India. He was awarded the Nobel prize in Literature for his collection of well known poems Gitanjali. Early years of Rabindranath Tagore Born in Calcutta on May 7, 1861, Rabindranath was the youngest of fourteen children. His father, [...]
Youth Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born august 26, 1910; baptized august 27 in Skopje, in Macedonia. Her family belongs to the Albanian community. They are catholic, though the majority of the Albanians are muslim there. The Turkish Empire is ruling the country. Her father is a businessman. He owns a building company and is connected [...]
Dr. Hargovind Khorana was born on 9 January 1922 at Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He obtained his M.Sc. Honours in Organic Chemistry from the Punjab University in 1945 and later received his Ph. D. from the University of Liverpool in England. The most fruitful and creative decade of Dr. Khorana’s career began in 1960 [...]
Nov 7, 1888 – Nov 21, 1970 Born Tiruvanaikkaval, India. Died Bangalore, India. Known for his Raman Discovery. Raman was born on Nov 7, 1888, in Tiruvanaikkaval, Madras. He attended the A.V.N. College and then the Presidency College of the University of Madras, from where he received his B.A. degree. In 1906, at the age [...]
It was the stars in the sky that made him such a bright star in the Indian constellation of academicians. Born on 19 October 1910 in the Lahore province of erstwhile India, Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for propounding the widely accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of [...]
Lament University Professor, Harvard University, and Professor of Economics and of Philosophy, Harvard University From January 1998: Master, Trinity College, Cambridge Birth: November 3, 1933, Santiniketan, India Citizenship: Indian Address Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA (until June 1998); Master, Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 lTQ, UK (from 1998). Education Presidency College, Calcutta [...]
