Read an article on Slashdot today about a Noble Prize laureate - Abdus Salam from Pakistan. He was given the Noble Prize for his work on the Higgs Bosom particle, which was discovered recently.
Abdus Salam has passed away, and unlike any other Noble Peace Prize laureate, he has not enjoyed the fame and respect in his country - Pakistan. The reason being he belongs to the Ahmadiyyah sect of Islam. His name is shunned from books, literature and speaking words of fame for him is akin to blasphemy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/08/higgs-boson-pakistan-scientist
This intrigued me to find out how many Noble Prize laureates were from India. And here is the list from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_of_India
Abdus Salam has passed away, and unlike any other Noble Peace Prize laureate, he has not enjoyed the fame and respect in his country - Pakistan. The reason being he belongs to the Ahmadiyyah sect of Islam. His name is shunned from books, literature and speaking words of fame for him is akin to blasphemy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/08/higgs-boson-pakistan-scientist
This intrigued me to find out how many Noble Prize laureates were from India. And here is the list from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_of_India
| 1902 | Ronald Ross | Medicine | Foreign citizens born in India |
| 1907 | Rudyard Kipling | Literature | Foreign citizens born in India |
| 1913 | Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | Citizen of British India |
| 1930 | C.V. Raman | Physics | Citizen of British India |
| 1968 | Har Gobind Khorana | Medicine | Foreign citizens of Indian origin |
| 1979 | Mother Teresa | Peace | Citizen of India |
| 1983 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Physics | Foreign citizens of Indian origin |
| 1998 | Amartya Sen | Economic Sciences | Citizen of India |
| 2009 | Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | Foreign citizens of Indian origin |
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