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Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize Winners of Indian Descent

Posted by admin on 28th December 2009

1.Rabindranath Tagore, Literature, 1913

2.C.V. Raman, Physics, 1930

3.Hargobind Khorana*, Medicine, 1968

4.Mother Teresa, Peace, 1979

5.Subramanian Chandrasekhar*, Physics, 1983

6.Amartya Sen 1998, Economics.

7.V.S.Naipaul* 2001, Literature.

* Of Indian descent

Posted by admin on 24th January 2009

First Indian Nobel Prize winner: Rabindra Nath Tagore was the first
Indian to win Nobel Prize. He won it for literature (Gitanjali) in 1913.