She is a Buddhist and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Other Asian Nobel Prize winners include Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , Venkata Raman , Abdus Salam , Shmuel Yosef Agnon , Robert Aumann , Menachem Begin , Aaron Ciechanover , Avram Hershko , Daniel Kahneman , Shimon Peres , Yitzhak Rabin