Stories-Great Indians-Index

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Top 10 Biggest Inventions by Indians

Great India - Know about some things which our India knew long before western inventions and discoveries. See this page also.

Indians Who Got Foreign Awards
The following Indians have been awarded foreign awards

Nobel Prize
(1) Rabindra Nath Tagore - in Literature in 1913
(2) CV Raman - in Physics in 1930
(3) Amartya Sen - in Economic Science in 1998

Har Gobind Khorana (Indian origin but American) - in Medicine in 1968
Subrahmanyan Chandrashekhar (Indian origin but American) - in Physics in 1983
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Indian origin but American) - in Chemistry in 2009

Russian Award
(1) D Jayakanthan - 1st Indian to receive Russian Award Silver Prize - in 1970 he wrote some pages comparing Raamkrishn Paramhans teachings with Tolstoy's philosophy. Jayakanth was schooled till 4th grade
(2) Mrinal Sen - 2nd Indian to receive Russian Award - Silver Prize (1975, 1979)