Category-wise Indian Nobel Prize winners list with Years
Nobel Prize is one of the oldest and prestigious award in the global platform. Nobel award winners earn respect and recognition from around the whole world for their greatest contribution and discoveries in different fields. Many Indian eminent personalities have won NobelPrize time to time and got acknowledged for their greatest works. This prestigious award giving was started in the memory of Alfred Nobel. Basically in six fields including literature, economics, physics, chemistry, peace and medicine Nobel Prize is given. The award winners are called Nobel laurates who get a gold medal, a monetary award and a diploma. Candidates of competitive exams and other citizens must know about greatest works of Indian personalities and winning the international award.
The award distribution was first started in 1901 in the memory of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel. The nominations are selected on the basis of benefits to mankind from the discoveries. The first Indian to win prestigious Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore who won for translating his great verse Gitanjali into English in 1913. Initially Nobel Prize was given in five fields except economics. With the establishment of central bank of Sweden in 1968 Nobel Prize in economics was started and Nobel Prize is awarded in six fields. All the medals and diploma were designed by famous Swedish and Norwegian artists. The Indian American economist Abhijit Banerjee won Nobel Prize in economics for year 2019 along with his wife Esther Duflo and Michel Kremer from Harvard University. Kailash Satyarthi won Nobel Prize in peace for 2014 due to his struggle against the suppression of children and young people for their right to education. He is known as social activist who constantly worked for providing the general right of education to children and came into spotlight through UNESCO. In 2014, he shared the Nobel Prize with young Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai. Students must go through the details of all Indian award winners who won prestigious Nobel Prize for their contribution in significant fields.
Nobel Prize Winners |
Category | Year |
Rabindranath Tagore | Literature |
1913 |
CV Raman |
Physics | 1930 |
Har Gobind Khurana | Medicine |
1968 |
Mother Teresa |
Peace | 1979 |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | Physics |
1983 |
Amartya Sen |
Economics | 1998 |
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry |
2009 |
Kailash Satyarthi |
Peace | 2014 |
Abhijit Banerjee | Economics |
2019 |
FAQs:
- Who was the first Indian women to win Nobel Prize?
Answer. Mother Teresa won Nobel Prize first for peace in 1979.
- Who was the first scientist to win Nobel Prize?
Answer. Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman received Nobel Prize in physics first in the year 1930.