U.S President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize 2009

The biggest breaking news is the American President Obama clinched the Nobel Peace Prize 2009.Well this is the  surprise win for US President.Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to make the Nuke-Free World.Obama beats 205 other candidates in this race.Formally US President Obama will get the prize on Dec 10,2009.He will get a Gold medal,Nobel Diploma and $1.4 million.
The other US former President who got Nobel so far Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the UN panel on climate change.

Indian-American Scientist Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan won Nobel Prize 2009 for chemistry

Stockholm: Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday formapping ribosomes, the protein-producing factories within cells, at the atomic level.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life and has helped researchers develop antibiotic cures for various diseases.
Yonath is the fourth woman to win the Nobel chemistry prize and the first since 1964, when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain received the prize.
This year's three laureates all generated three-dimensional models that show how different antibiotics bind to ribosomes.

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Other Indian Nobel Prize Winners from 1901 to till date are

# 1 Nobel Prizes

British-Raj Citizens
         Ronald Ross
         Rudyard Kipling
         Rabindranath Tagore
         Abdus Salam
Citizens of India
         Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
American Citizens of Indian Origin
         Hargobind Khorana
         Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
         Venkatraman 'Venki' Ramakrishnan
Indian Citizen of Foreign Origin
         Mother Teresa
People of Indian Descent (Descendants of Modern-Era Immigrants)
         Naipaul
Foreign Citizens mainly residing in India
         Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Citizens of India
         Amartya Sen
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