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Introduction to Magsaysay Award

The Magsaysay Award, sometimes also known as Nobel Prize of Asia, was introduced in 1957, in the memory of the Philippines President Late Ramon Magsaysay, who died on March 17, 1957. The president died in a plane crash, is remembered by his countrymen for his great leadership. The President is loved by the people for his courage, simplicity, justice.

The prize was introduced by his admirers from America, the Rockefeller Brothers, in April 1957 under the Rockefeller Brothers Fund based in New York City with the contemporary Philippine government. It is awarded to honor the spirit of greatness in various fields viz. Government Service, Public Service, Community Leadership, Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts, Peace and International Understanding and Emergent Leadership etc to people of Asia.

Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay was born on August 31, 1907. He was the seventh President of the Republic of the Philippines, elected on December 30, 1953. He was a die-hard anti-Communist. He was an automobile mechanic by profession. He was nominated for the post of President by his party Nacionalista Party. He was married to Luz Magsaysay in 1932 and fathered three children.
 



Ramon Magsaysay’s Life History

1. 1907 – In Iba, Zambales, Philippines to Exequiel Magsaysay and Perfecta del Fierro. 
2. 1927 – Entered in the University of the Philippines for Pre-engineering course  
3. 1941 – Joined the motor pool of the 31st Infantry Division of the Philippine Army.  
4. 1946 – Elected under the Liberal Party to the Philippine House of Representatives  
5. 1953 – Resigned his post as Defense Secretary and became the Presidential Candidate of the Nacionalista Party  
6. 1953 – 1n December, elected as the seventh president of the country

 

Indians Winners of Magsaysay Award

Names	Year	Field (s)
Chintaman Deshmukh	1958	Community Leadership
Chintaman Deshmukh	1959	Government Services
Amitabha Chowdhury	1961	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Mother Teresa	1962	Peace and International Understanding
Dara Khurody	1963	Community Leadership
Verghese Kurien	1963	Community Leadership
Tribhuvandas Patel	1963	Community Leadership
Welthy Fisher	1964	Peace and International Understanding
Jayaprakash Narayan	1965	Public Service
K.D. Chattopadhyay	1966	Community Leadership
Satyajit Ray	1967	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm.
M.S. Swaminathan	1971	Community Leadership
M.S.Subbulakshmi	1974	Public Service
Boobli G Verghese	1975	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
H. Holck-Larsen	1976	Peace and International Understanding
Sombhu Mitra	1976	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Ela Ramesh	1977	Community Leadership
Mabelle Arole	1979	Community Leadership
Rajanikant Arole	1979	Community Leadership
Gour Kishore Ghosh	1981	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Pramod Karan Sethi	1981	Community Leadership
Chandi Prasad Bhatt	1982	Community Leadership
Manibhai Desai	1982	Public Service
Arun Shourie	1982	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Rasipuram Lakshman	1984	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Muralidhar Amte	1985	Public Service
Lakshmi Chand Jain	1989	Public Service
Ravi Shankar	1992	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Banoo J. Coyaji	1993	Public Service
Kiran Bedi	1994	Government Services
Pandurang Athavale	1996	Community Leadership
Tirunellai Seshan	1996	Government Services
Mahasweta Devi	1997	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Mahesh C. Mehta	1997	Public Service
Jockin Arputham	2000	Peace and International Understanding
Aruna Roy	2000	Community Leadership
Rajendra Singh	2001	Community Leadership
Sandeep Pandey	2002	Emergent Leadership
James M. Lyngdoh	2003	Government Services
Shantha Sinha	2003	Community Leadership
Laxmi N. Ramdas	2004	Peace and International Understanding
V Shantha	2005	Public Service
Arvind Kejriwal	2006	Emergent Leadership
Palagummi Sainath	2007	Journalism, Literature & Creative Comm. Arts
Deep Joshi	2009	-
Neelima Mishra	2011	Emergent Leadership
Harish Hande	2011	-
Kulandei Francis	2012	-

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Nobel Prize Winners from India

1. Rabindranath Tagore - India’s popular poet and writer was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for his “Geetanjali” a collection of his poems.

2. Chandra Shekar Venkata Raman [Sir C.V.Raman] - Indian Scientist was awarded Nobel Prize of Physics in 1930 for his “Raman Effect” related to light.

3. Dr. Hargobind Khorana - India’s Doctorate in Chemistry was awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968 for his study of the Human Genetic Code and its role in Protein Synthesis.

4. Mother Teresa - a Yogoslavian nun who became an Indian citizen was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979 for her service through her Charitable Mission “Nirmal Hriday” at Calcutta to people suffering from Leprosy and to those people dying in destitute.

5. Dr.Subramanian Chandrashekar - an Indian Astro-Physicist was awarded Nobel Prize for Physics in 1983 for his theory on white dwarf stars’ limitation known as ‘Chandrasekhar Limit’.

6. Dr.Amatya Sen - an Indian Professor in Economics was awarded Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in Economic Theory related to Poverty, Democracy, Development and Social Welfare.

7. Rajendra K. Pachauri - as chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Peace, 2007, He shared the award with Al Gore, Vice President of USA

8. Venkataraman Ramakrishnan - in 2009, an Indo-American has shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with a co-American Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel for mapping ribosomes, the protein procucing factories within cells at the atomic level.

• The following Nobel Prize Winners are persons of Indian Origin/Citizens of other countries or the Nobel Prize has been given for the works related to India :

1. Rudyard Kipling - a British Poet has been awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1907) for his works in Literature such as Poems and Short Stories related to India and Burma/ Myanmar.

2. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul - a British Writer of Indian Origin was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.