Padma ViBhushan (1961-1970)

Year	Name	Field	State	Country
1962	H. Varda Raja Iyengar	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu	India
1962	Padmaja Naidu	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh	India
1962	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh	India
1963	A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar	Medicine	Tamil Nadu	India
1963	Suniti Kumar Chatterji	Literature & Education	West Bengal	India
1963	Hari Vinayak Pataskar	Public Affairs	Maharashtra	India
1964	Gopinath Kaviraj	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh	India
1964	Acharya Kalelkar	Literature & Education	Maharashtra	India
1965	Arjan Singh	Military Service	Delhi	India
1965	Joyanto Nath Chaudhuri	Military Service	West Bengal	India
1965	Mehdi Nawaz Jung	Public Affairs	Andhra Pradesh	India
1966	Valerian Cardinal Gracias	Social Work	Maharashtra	India
1967	Bhola Nath Jha	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh	India
1967	Chandra Kisan Daphtary	Public Affairs	Maharashtra	India
1967	Hafix Mohammed Ibrahim	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh	India
1967	Pattadakal Venkanna R Rao	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh	India
1968	Mahadev Srihari Ane	Public Affairs	Madhya Pradesh	India
1968	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Science & Engineering	Illinois	US
1968	Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis	Statistical Science	Delhi	India
1968	K. Vaidyanatha Kalyana Sundaram	Public Affairs	Delhi	India
1968	Kripal Singh	Civil Service	Delhi	India
1969	Hargobind Khorana	Science & Engineering	Massachusetts	US
1969	Mohan Sinha Mehta	Civil Service	Rajasthan	India
1969	Dattatraya Shridhar Joshi	Civil Service	Maharashtra	India
1969	Ghananand Pande	Civil Service	Uttar Pradesh	India
1969	Rajeshwar Dayal	Civil Service	Delhi	India
1970	Binay Ranjan Sen	Civil Service	West Bengal	India
1970	Tara Chand	Literature & Education	Uttar Pradesh	India
1970	Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam	Civil Service	Tamil Nadu	India
1970	Suranjan Das	Civil Service	West Bengal	India
1970	Harbaksh Singh	Military Service	Punjab	India
1970	A. Rameswami Mudaliar	Civil Service	Andhra Pradesh	India
1970	Anthony Lancelot Dias	Public Affairs	Maharashtra	India

Nobel Laureates of India

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (1913) Nobel Prize for Literature Popularly known as Gurudev, India's most famous writer and poet was awarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of his work Geetanjali, a collection of poems, in 1913. Tagore was also involved in teaching. In 1901 he founded the famous Santiniketan which later came to be known as Vishwabharati University. DID YOU KNOW? Rabindranath Tagore is also the author of India's National Anthem.

CHANDRASHEKAR VENKATA RAMAN (1930) Nobel Prize for Physics Born at Thiruvanaikkaval in Tamil Nadu, Raman studied at Presidency College, Madras. Later, he served as Professor of Physics at Calcutta University. C.V. Raman won the Nobel Prize for an important research in the field of optics (light). Raman had found that diffused light contained rays of other wavelengths-what is now popularly known as Raman Effect. His theory explains why the frequency of light passing through a transparent medium changes.

	HARGOBIND KHORANA (1968) The Nobel Prize for Medicine Dr. Khorana was born in Raipur, Punjab (now in Pakistan). He went abroad to get his doctorate in Chemistry and later settled there. It was his study of the human genetic code and the role it plays in protein synthesis that got him the Nobel Prize.

MOTHER TERESA (1979) The Nobel Peace Prize Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu at Skopje, now in Yugoslavia. She wanted to become a nun and joined the Irish order of the Sisters of Loretto (at Dublin) in 1928. It is as a nun that Agnes came Calcutta in 1929. Here she was extremely touched by the misery of the poor and the sick. She decided to dedicate her life to serving them. She then founded a group of similar minded

people called the Missionaries of Charity and set up Nirmal Hriday a center where she took care of the dying, the lepers and other people who had been left alone on the streets of Calcutta to die. Today her group has centers all over the world.
	SUBRAMANIAN CHANDRASHEKAR (1983) The Nobel Prize for Physics Dr S. Chandrashekar, is an Indian-born astrophysicist (a branch of astronomy or the study of space). After studying at the Presidency College in Madras, Dr. Chandrashekhar went to the United States for work and settled there. He has written many books on his field Astrophysics and

Stellar Dynamics. He developed a theory on white dwarf stars forecasts the limit of mass that dwarf stars can have. This limit is known as the Chandrashekar Limit. His theory also explains the final stages of the evolution of stars. DID YOU KNOW? Dr. Chandrashekar is the nephew of another Nobel Prize winner Sir C.V. Raman.
AMARTYA SEN (1998) Nobel Prize for Economics Prof. Amartya Sen is the first Asian to win the Economics Nobel. He is one of the most respected economics thinker in the world. He is also an excellent teacher. He won the Nobel for his work in the area of economic theory. Some of his most important work is in the areas of poverty, democracy, development and social welfare.