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Nobel Prize
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Chandrasekhar,
Subramanayam (Astrophysicist)
Subramanyam Chandrasekahar was one of the foremost astrophysicists
of the twentieth century. He was the nephew of the renowned
physicist Sir C.V. Raman. He won the Nobel Prize for
Physics in 1983 for his theory of dying stars or black holes.
He has done pioneering work in the evolution of stars, Chandrasekhar's
limit, the discovery of neutron stars and black holes.
NASA named one of its premier X-ray observatory as 'Chandra
X-ray Observatory'. It has also launched the 'Chandra
X-ray Telescope' to pay tribute to the great scientist
who immigrated to the USA in 1935, where he remained as a
faculty member in the University of Chicago until his death.
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Khorana,
Har Gobind (Molecular Biologist)
Dr. Har Govind Khorana is the co-winner of Nobel Prize
in medicine, 1968 for his outstanding research achievement on
chemical methods for synthesis of nucleotides, coenzymes and
nucleic acid, for understanding of genetic code. His team of
scientists produced chemically synthesized gene and revealed
how genetic code works in the cell. It also opened new avenues
for research to find what causes genetic defects and how to
correct them. He received several national and international
honours and awards including Padma Vibhushan, National Medal
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Raman,
Chandrasekara Venkata (Physicst)
Professor Raman discovered 'Raman Effect' in 1928 for
which he won Nobel Prize in 1930. He contributed outstanding
research work in the field of molecular diffractions of light,
mechanical theory of bowed strings and diffraction of x-rays
and the theory of musical instruments and physics of crystals.
He became Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, London in 1924.
He founded his own institute, the Raman Research Institute at
Bangalore in 1943. He was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1954 and the
international Lenin Prize in 1957. |
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