Indians Who Won The Nobel Prize

18 March 2024

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The Nobel Prizes, instituted in 1901, annually honour contributions to literature, world peace and sciences. Here's a list of Indians who have won the award

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Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'Gitanjali', his book of verse

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C V Raman won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 "for his work on the scattering of light" and the Raman effect

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Dr Hargobind Khorana produced the first man-made gene in a lab. This won him the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1968 along with Marshall Nuremberg and Robert Holley

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Abdus Salam won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979, with Steven Weinberg, for his work on electroweak unification

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Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. She spent a lifetime helping the needy through the Missionaries Of Charity in Calcutta

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Subramaniam Chandrashekhar won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his work on stars and their evolution

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Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in Welfare economics

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Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a British writer of Indian origin, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001

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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won the prize in chemistry in 2009 "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"

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Kailash Satyarthi and Abhijit Banerjee were awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace and Economics in 2014 and 2019 respectively

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