In pics: Nobel laureates of Indian origin

Rabindranath Tagore was the first Indian to get a Nobel Prize in 1913 for his work in Literature. He won the award for "his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West".

CV Raman was India’s first physicist to win a Nobel Physics Prize in 1930 “for his work on the scattering of light and for the discovery of the effect named after him". (BCCL)

Har Gobind Khorana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for his work on electron diffraction. He shared the award with Robert W Holley and Marshall W Nirenberg “for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis". (AP)

Mother Teresa was the first Indian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She is known for her service towards mankind. Her canonisation took place in 2003, and Pope Francis declared her a saint in 2016. (Reuters)

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 “for theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars". He shared the award with William Alfred Fowler. (BCCL)

Economist Amartya Sen won the 1998 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences "for his contributions to welfare economics". (Reuters)

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (L) won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". He shared the award with Thomas A Steitz and Ada E Yonath. (Reuters)

Kailash Satyarthi, along with Malala Yousafzai, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education." (Reuters)

Economist Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee won the Nobel Prize in 2019 with his French-American wife Esther Duflo and another American economist Michael Kremer for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". (Reuters)