Saturday, 14 May 2011

Noble Prize Winners (Indians)

 NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS (Indians)  :

 Nobel laureates of India

  1. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan*, Chemistry, 2009
  2. Amartya Sen, Economics, 1998
  3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, born in then British India,, Physics, 1983
  4. Mother Teresa, born in then Ottoman Empire, now Macedonia, Peace, 1979
  5. Har Gobind Khorana, born in then British India,, Medicine, 1968
  6. C. V. Raman, Physics, 1930
  7. Rabindranath Tagore, Literature, 1913
  8. Rudyard Kipling, "born in Bombay, British India was the youngest ever recipient of the award", Literature, 1907
  9. Ronald Ross, "was born in India and a citizen of India of foreign origin", Medicine for his work on malaria, 1902
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Jawaharlal Nehru Award

Jawaharlal Nehru Award


Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding is an international award presented by the Government of India. It was founded in 1965 and is administered by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to people "for their outstanding contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world". The money constituent of this award is  Rs.25 lakhs  rupees.
 Recipients :
  1. U Thant - 1965
  2. Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1966
  3. Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan - 1967
  4. Yehudi Menuhin - 1968
  5. Mother Teresa - 1969
  6. Kenneth Kaunda - 1970
  7. Josip Broz Tito - 1971
  8. André Malraux - 1972
  9. Julius Nyerere - 1973
  10. Raul Prebisch - 1974
  11. Jonas Salk - 1975
  12. Giuseppe Tucci - 1976
  13. Tulsi Meherji Shrestha - 1977
  14. Nichidatsu Fujii - 1978
  15. Nelson Mandela - 1980
  16. Barbara Ward - 1981
  17. Alva and Gunnar Myrdal - 1982
  18. Leopold Sedar Senghor - 1983
  19. Bruno Kreisky - 1984
  20. Indira Gandhi - 1985 (posthumous)
  21. Olof Palme - 1986 (posthumous)
  22. Javier Pérez de Cuéllar - 1987
  23. Yasser Arafat - 1988
  24. Robert Gabriel Mugabe - 1989
  25. Helmut Kohl - 1990
  26. Aruna Asaf Ali - 1991
  27. Maurice Strong - 1992
  28. Aung San Suu Kyi - 1993
  29. Mahathir Bin Mohamad - 1994
  30. Hosni Mubarak - 1995
  31. Goh Chok Tong - 2003
  32. Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said - 2004 (yet to be presented)
  33. Wangari Maathai - 2005
  34. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva - 2006
  35. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson - 2007
  36. Angela Merkel - 2009
  • Prize not awarded in 1986 & from 1996 to 2002.
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Dada Saheb Phalke Awards


Dada sahib phalke awardees :

D.Ramanaidu – 2009

V.K. Murthy -2008

Manna  Dey – 2007

Tapan Sinha-2006   

Shyam Benegal – Director -2005

 Adoor Gopalakrishnan – Director-2004

 Mrinal Sen – Director-2003

Dev Anand- Actor, Director, Producer-2002

Yash Chopra - Director, Producer-2001

Asha Bhosle – Singer-2000

Hrishikesh Mukherjee – Director-1999

B.R. Chopra - Director, Producer-1998

Pradeep - Lyricist, Poet-1997

Sivaji Ganesan – Actor-1996

Dr. Raj Kumar - Actor, Singer, Producer-1995

Dilip Kumar – Actor-1994

Majrooh Sultanpuri – Lyricist-1993

Bhupen Hazarika - Composer, Singer, Producer-1992

Bhalji Pendharkar - Producer, Director-1991

 A. Nageshwar Rao- Actor-1990

 Lata Mangeshkar - Singer, Producer-1989

 Ashok Kumar - Actor, Singer-1988

 Raj Kapoor - Actor, Director-1987

 B. Nagi Reddi -  Producer-1986

V.Shantaram - Director, producer, actor-1985

Satyajit Ray - Director, Producer-1984

Durga Khote – Actress-1983

L.V. Prasad - Actor, Director, Producer-1982

Naushad- Composer-1981

Jairaj - Actor, Director, Producer-1980

Sohrab Modi - Actor, Director, Producer-1979

R.C. Boral – Composer-1978

Nitin Bose - Cinematographer, Director,  Producer-1977

Kanan Devi - Actress, Singer, Producer-1976

 Dhiren Ganguly - Actor, Director, Producer1975

B.N. Reddi - Director, Producer-1974

Sulochana- Actress-1973

Pankaj Mallick - Singer, Actor, Composer-1972

Prithviarj Kapoor - Actor, Director, Producer-1971

B.N. Sircar – Producer-1970

Devika Rani – Actress -1969
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Sahitya Academy Award


 



Award Information
Category
Literature (Individual)
Instituted
1954
First Awarded
1954
Last Awarded
2009
Awarded by
Sahitya Akademi, Government of India
Description
Literary award
in India

Sahitya Akademi Award (Devnagari): is a literary honor in India which Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of outstanding works in one of the following twenty-four major Indian languages
Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.
Established in 1954, the award comprises a plaque and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 (in 2009 Govt. of India has announced to increase the amount to Rs. 100,000).The award's purpose is to recognize and promote excellence in Indian writing and also acknowledge new trends. The annual process of selecting awardees goes on for the preceding twelve months.
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Raman Megasaysay Awards

The   Raman Megasaysay Award  is an annual award established to perpetuate former Philippine President Raman magasaysay’s example of integrity in government, courageous service to the people, and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society. The Ramon Magsaysay Award is often considered Asia's Nobel Prize. The prize was established in April 1957 by the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the concurrence of the Philippine government.
Every year the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation grants the prize to Asian individuals and organizations for achieving excellence in their respective fields. The awards are given in six categories:
  • Government Service
  • Public Service
  • Community Leadership
  • Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts
  • Peace and International Understanding
  • Emergent Leadership
In May 1957, seven prominent Filipinos were named to the founding board of trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, the non-profit corporation tasked with implementing the awards program

            Government Service


        Public service   :

         Community Leadership :

 

           Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts  :

 Peace and International Understanding :

         Emergent Leadership   :

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