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Chandrasekhar, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 as a United States citizen.

Hargobind Khorana -Physiology

Hargobind Khorana (born 1922), a person of Indian origin, shared the 1968 Nobel Prize in

Physiology or Medicine for his work on genes. He had left India in 1945 and became a

naturalised United States citizen in the 1970s. He continues to head a laboratory at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -Physics

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983.

Mother Teresa -Peace

Mother Teresa (1910–1997) was born in Skopje, then a city in Ottoman Empire. She is of 

Albanian origin. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Toiling for years in the slums of 

Kolkata (Calcutta), her work centred on caring for the poor and suffering, among whom

she herself died.

V.S. Naipaul -Literature

A British writer, V.S. Naipul (Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul) was born in 1932 into a

family of north Indian descent living in Chaguanas, close to Port of Spain, on Trinidad. He

won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. In awarding him the Prize, the Swedish

Academy praised his work "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible

scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories."

Amartya Sen -Economics

Amartya Sen (born 1933) was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in

Economics, awarded to him in 1998 for his work on welfare economics. He has made

several key contributions to research in this field, such as to the axiomatic theory of 

social choice; the definitions of welfare and poverty indexes; and the empirical studies of 

famine. All are linked by his interest in distributional issues and particularly in those most

impoverishe. Whereas Kenneth Arrow's "impossibility theorem" suggested that it was not

possible to aggregate individual choices into a satisfactory choice for society as a whole,

Sen showed that societies could find ways to alleviate such a poor outcome.