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World class
university
Nobel prizes

A prize that remains
the gold standard of
excellence
Awarded each year for excellence in five disciplines and one activity (peace), this prize
is a coveted honour. We explore its near total absence from Indian shores
Cambridge university
has 29 Nobel laureates on its rolls,
indicating its academic richness

by Team Careers360

U

niversities have traditionally been home to maximum
number of academic Nobel
awardees and the number of
awardees that a university holds, communicates its intellectual richness and
vibrancy. Indian universities, has been
woefully ill represented in the Nobel
pantheon, with just one prize awarded

to Sir C V Raman from Calcutta University for his work on physics. Though
intellectuals argue that it is an irrelevant
standard of excellence, as Prof. CNR
Rao does in the facing page, its allure
remains undiminished. Shanghai