NOBEL MEMORIAL WALL INAUGURATED AT KOLKATA

Harald Sandberg, the Swedish Ambassador on 25 October 2013 inaugurated the Nobel Memorial Wall in Kolkata. The Nobel Memorial Wall has been set up at the Esplanade Metro Station in Kolkata. Seven of the Nobel Laureates from India are portrayed in the metro station along with the Rabindranath Tagore.

The Memorial Wall was inaugurated of centenary when Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The portraits on the Memorial Wall also carry the information related to the life and achievements in the respective field of the Nobel Laureates with the year when they were awarded the Nobel in three languages, namely English, Hindi and Bangla.

Two more memorial walls would be established at metro stations of Gitanjali and Jorasanko. The work on the Nobel Memorial Wall was done as the part of the seventh edition of the Sweden-India Nobel Memorial wee.

Nobel laureates of India

Year	Laureates	Subject	Origin
1902	Ronald Ross	Medicine	Foreign citizen born in India
1907	Rudyard Kipling	Literature	Foreign citizen born in India
1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	Citizen of India
1930	C.V. Raman	Physics	Citizen of India
1968	Har Gobind Khorana	Medicine	Foreign citizen of Indian origin
1979	Mother Teresa	Peace	Foreign born citizen of India
1983	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physics	Indian-born American citizen
1998	Amartya Sen	Economic Sciences	Citizen of India
2001	V. S. Naipaul	Literature	Indian descendant UK citizen
2009	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	Indian born American Citizen

Sir Ronald Ross was an Indian-born British doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria. His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito led to the realization that malaria was transmitted by Anopheles, and laid the foundation for combating the disease.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling is best known for his works of fiction, including The Jungle Book (a collection of stories which includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"), Just So Stories (1902), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888); and his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—" (1910). In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.