GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Press release. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. Thirty years ago Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.

Detailed explanation-3: -It took Marie another 12 years before she could isolate pure metal radium from pitchblende and definitively prove its existence. The couple’s work on radioactivity won them a share of the Nobel prize in physics in 1903, alongside Becquerel, making Marie the first woman to win a Nobel prize.