Amartya Kumar Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Bengali : অমর্ত্য কুমার সেন, Ômorto Kumar Shen) (born 3 November 1933) received the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on welfare economics. […]

Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011)

Har Gobind Khorana (9 January 1922 – 9 November 2011) Har Gobind Khorana – Born on January 9, 1922 in Multan, after completing his education from Punjab University in 1945, […]

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) Joseph Rudyard Kipling – Born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay and died on January 18, 1936 in Middlesex hospital […]

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997)

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997) Mother Teresa (1910-1997) won Nobel Prize for Peace, “Exemplary Charity and Social Service” in the year 1979. She was born in […]

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri

Rajendra Kumar Pachauri – Born on August 20, 1940 at Nainital and educated in Lucknow & Jamalpur. He started his career with Diesel Locomotive Work, Varanasi and had occupied various […]

Ronald Ross

Sir Ronald Ross – Born on May 13, 1857 in Himalayan valley at Almora and died on September 16, 1932. After his education in England, he joined the Indian Medical […]

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul – Born on August 17, 1932 at Chaguanas, Trinidad. He is a British novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian decent. He is widely considered to be one […]

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Born on October 19, 1910, in Lahore, Punjab (a Tamil by origin), died on Aug 2, 1995 at Chicago, United Sates. Recipient of National medal for Science […]

Tenzin Gyatzo (Dalai Lama) 6 July 1935 (age 85 years)

Tenzin Gyatzo (Dalai Lama) 6 July 1935 (age 85 years) Tenzin Gyatzo – Born on July 6, 1935 in Tibet, is 14th Dalai Lama, a Buddhist noted public speaker, spiritual […]

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Born in 1952, at Chidambaram, Tamilnadu. After his schooling at Vadodara & Colleging at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Vadodara, he moved to USA and obtained Ph.D. in Physics […]

Vishwa Guru Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – ‎August 7, 1941 )

Vishwa Guru Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 – ‎August 7, 1941 ) Born May 7, 1861 in Calcutta, amidst turmoil of British and Indian relations. He was the sixth child […]