One can still be haunted by the disaster that RK Narayan’ novel The Guide became when it found an onscreen avatar in an eponymous film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. Released under Navketan banner in 1965, the film’s Hindi version was directed by Vijay Anand while the English one by an American television director, Tad Danielewski.

Paris: French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died at age 89, local government officials in France said. Montagnier died on 8 February, 2022, at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a western suburb of the.

Bob Dylan Photo Source However, it was not Dylan but a Bengali literary giant who is the first songwriter (and first non-European) to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali was a song book and it won a Nobel in 1913, a win that precedes Dylan’s by over a century!

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1998). Sen, Amartya; Williams, Bernard (1982). Utilitarianism and beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, an Indian child rights campaigner, have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the age of just 17, Malala is the.

She was recognized in 1905, two years after Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, in physics. It would be 26 years before another woman was selected for the award: the.

CV Raman. Indian physicist CV Raman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1930. Born in the Madras Province, Raman had gone on to become a physics professor at the University of Calcutta. It was.

Biographical R abindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads.

William Cecil Campbell (2015) William Cecil Campbell is an Irish biochemist, biologist and parasitologist. He was born in Northern Ireland in 1930 to R.J. Campbell who worked on a farm. He attended Campbell College Belfast and graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1952, followed by a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1957.

Aspect, Clauser, Zeilinger awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the foundations of quantum physics Optica Honorary Member Alain Aspect, Optica Emeritus Member John Clauser, and Optica Fellow Anton Zeilinger are each awarded one-third of the prize

Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka, who won the Nobel Literature prize in 1986, welcomed the latest African Nobel laureate as proof that “the arts — and literature in particular — are well and.

Published October 4, 2022 This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to France’s Alain Aspect, an expert on quantum optics and atomic physics, American theoretical and experimental.